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of or pertaining to the wealthy:
late Middle English
late Middle English;
rich, affluent, prosperous.
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To its lasting credit, the administration has taken on powerful
interests and succeeded.
Order cannot be imposed from the top down and too many politicians are in thrall to powerful,
opposition hires people who have spent their entire lives at becoming experts at manipulating public opinion.
My position as regards the
interests can be put in a few words.
But in the past, everyone tended to draw from the same
Elevating him would inject into the campaign more talk about the capture of government by various
Today they are recognised as an influential,
And start writing for the average readers, not with the view to appease the
And even amid a popular revolt this year against the
interests they represent, they delivered huge returns.
The opposition and many educated and
British Dictionary definitions for
having a great deal of money; rich
arising from or characterized by money
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
George Bernard Shaw
(...) advantage ... to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and...
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they...