Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a great deal of money: synonym: rich.
- adjective Representing or arising from the possession of money or wealth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supplied with money; rich in money; having money; able to command money; wealthy; affluent.
- Consisting of money; in the form of money: as, moneyed capital.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Supplied with money; having money; wealthy.
- adverb Converted into money; coined.
- adverb Consisting in, or composed of, money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
monied .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth
- adjective having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
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Examples
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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.
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The "moneyed" - drug reform organizations (e.g., those supported by Soros, Sperling and Lewis) will have nothing to do with the MERP Model contending that this is far too radical.
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It should be emphasized that the MERP Model has intrinsic advantages over all the "tax and regulate" - models that are promoted by the "moneyed" - organizations.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for an 8-1 majority in the Citizens United decision upholding the constitutionality of disclosure, "Shareholders can determine whether their corporation's political speech advances the corporation's interests in making profits, and citizens can see whether elected officials are 'in the pocket' of so-called moneyed interests."
Free Speech for Unions, but Not for Other Corporations? 2012
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Jopling has described his work as a "means of establishing a bridge between attitudes"; between, that is, the moneyed establishment and the avant garde.
Jay Jopling: portrait of the perfect gallerist | profile 2011
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Boots had done it, — no doubt without malice prepense; but he had done it; and now that the Greenes were once more known as moneyed people, he turned upon me, and told me to my face, that I had desired that box to be taken to my own room as part of my own luggage!
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Two attributes - "popular" and "moneyed" - could have aroused Pacquiao's political ambition.
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The "moneyed" groups (DPA, MPP, NORML) are not likely to be the ones to do it because the model that needs to be imposed is the MERP Model which basically treats Marijuana cultivation as we now treat home brewing: it is neither taxed or regulated.
Phelps and Obama-- leading the way Towards legalizing Marijuana. 2009
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Enough with the compromised solutions of the "moneyed" drug reform organizations.
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The Founding Fathers laid the groundwork for a society so forward-thinking and revolutionary in its elevation of freedom that "moneyed" power had a hard time accepting it.
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