wealthmonger
wealthmonger noun: a rich person.
Noun
wealthmonger (plural wealthmongers)
- A rich person.
- And what makes the working classes so poor but the system that creates such wealthmongers as Rothschild? Every man who employs labor pays a tax to the class to which Rothschild belongs; and out of the miserable pit- tance given to the wage slaves comes another tax to the same class.1881, The Radical Review, page 11
- Kenneth Clark (1969) […] might well have equated those who choose wealth to the exclusion of other pursuits (wealthmongers?) with the barbarians, who once obliterated civilization in Western Europe. Warren Buffett, the world's second- richest man (before donating three-quarters of his $31 billion...2012 March 14, John K. White, Do the Math!: On Growth, Greed, and Strategic Thinking, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 312
Forms of wealthmonger
| plural | wealthmongers |
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Origin of wealthmonger
From wealth + monger.
Questions about wealthmonger
- What does wealthmonger mean?
- Wealthmonger means a rich person.
- What part of speech is wealthmonger?
- Wealthmonger is a noun.
- What is the plural of wealthmonger?
- The plural of wealthmonger is wealthmongers.
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