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moneyscape

moneyscape noun: a financial environment; the state of an economy.

Noun

moneyscape (plural moneyscapes)

  1. A financial environment; the state of an economy.
    • I've nothing against money, except when I don't have it. But artists make things and things enter the turbulent economic moneyscape.2007, The Recorder: A Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, page 58
    • It's the story of where the bleak moneyscape the twenty-somethings face came from.2015 April 23, Rob Stock, “Young New Zealanders get a voice in Ruth, Roger and Me”, in Stuff
  2. A location that is frequented by the rich.
    • This has also been the case in other Indian cities, for example, South Delhi has been turned into a 'moneyscape' (King, 1990a).1994, Paul McCarthy, Postmodern Desire, Learning from India, page 116
    • The gleam of Manhattan's moneyscapes – the lavish fundraising banquets, the mansions, the clothes – have an Arabian Nights allure.2010 September 23, Peter Rainer, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: movie review”, in The Christian Science Monitor

Examples of moneyscape in a sentence

  • For individuals, if you want to stay rich in the current moneyscape, it's best to take the haircut and accept your fifty million and walk.2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, page 404:
  • In the past I looked down on neighborhoods like Lincoln Square and East Sixth Street as too cute, fabricated urban moneyscapes for superficial suburbanites without taste, without a sense of adventure.2014 August 22, Sam Anderson-Ramos, “On Leaving Dove Springs: A meditation on neighborhood, fear, family, and change”, in The Austin...

Forms of moneyscape

pluralmoneyscapes

Origin of moneyscape

From money + -scape.

Questions about moneyscape

What does moneyscape mean?
Moneyscape means a financial environment; the state of an economy.
How do you use moneyscape in a sentence?
For individuals, if you want to stay rich in the current moneyscape, it's best to take the haircut and accept your fifty million and walk.
What part of speech is moneyscape?
Moneyscape is a noun.
What is the plural of moneyscape?
The plural of moneyscape is moneyscapes.

Words near moneyscape in the dictionary

  1. Moneypoor
  2. Moneypore
  3. moneys
  4. moneys of account
  5. moneys of necessity
  6. moneyscape
  7. moneyscapes
  8. moneyspinner
  9. moneyspinners
  10. moneyspinning
  11. Moneystone

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