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US
/ˈmənid/
]
[ UK /mˈʌnɪd/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌnɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth
moneyed interests -
having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
moneyed aristocrats
a substantial family
wealthy corporations
a speculator flush with cash
an affluent banker
not merely rich but loaded
How To Use moneyed In A Sentence
- The idea that attending opera today is only for the elite and moneyed is absurd. Times, Sunday Times
- Richard Kay, like Nigel Dempster before him, is paid to write a diary about moneyed toffs like David and Sam so that humbler tube-travelling folk can goggle a bit and scowl at their youngers and betters. Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs
- Their policy is to align themselves with powerful moneyed forces to tilt the playing field in their favor and let everybody else fend for themselves.
- It also precipitated a 1976 Supreme Court ruling equating money with free speech, bringing a whole new twist to the notion of centralized power in the hands of the moneyed. Election Reform: Grow it from the grassroots
- The Eighties career woman who had it all: looks, glamour, fast-track, moneyed lifestyle, husband, children.
- Its population is apparently split between creative bohemians and moneyed green-welly-ites. Spending review 2010: living with the cuts
- Bush and the moneyed interests for whom he is fronting are inflicting gaping, cankerous wounds upon humanity and the Earth. Shouting at the Devil:
- For the way of the moneyed middle classes is to outsource. Times, Sunday Times
- He -- his view was unless you have the attachment of the wealthy people -- what he called the moneyed men -- to the government, the government would not survive. A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Edwards has on numerous occasions reitterated that this proposal is not a pretense at a potential Presidential fiat to shrive healthcare from our Congressional representatives BUT merely the first salvo in his campaign to initiate action towards bringing healthcare to all as right and not a moneyed privilege. Edwards Mailer In Iowa Reiterates His Threat To Take Away Congress' Health Care