Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dealer in money; a money-changer.
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Examples
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They adduce Octave Mirbeau, whose play "Les affaires sont les affaires" (1903) also put at its center a ruthless money-dealer.
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But to look for gratitude from a money-dealer is as vain as to try to touch the heart of the wolves of the Ukraine in winter.
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For, a money-dealer having committed some fraud in the way of his business, he cut off his hands, and nailed them to his counter.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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His father Caius Octavius was, from his earliest years, a person both of opulence and distinction: for which reason I am surprised at those who say that he was a money-dealer [108], and was employed in scattering bribes, and canvassing for the candidates at elections, in the
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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His father Caius Octavius was, from his earliest years, a person both of opulence and distinction: for which reason I am surprised at those who say that he was a money-dealer [108], and was employed in scattering bribes, and canvassing for the candidates at elections, in the
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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He is a money-dealer, a monopoliser; we must make him disgorge.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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"You have to pay a pretty premium for them," added the money-dealer, as he stopped to wipe his lips.
Pirate Gold Frederic Jesup Stimson 1899
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Ricardo, however, was not a mere money-dealer, nor even a walking treatise.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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I had pressing occasion; but since our dispute regarding the affair of the succession, my Lady had resolutely refused to sign any papers for my advantage: and without her name, I am sorry to say, my own was of little value in the market, and I could not get a guinea from any money-dealer in London or Dublin.
Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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He is a money-dealer, a monopoliser; we must make him disgorge.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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