wealthmongerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wealthmonger (plural wealthmongers)

1. (derogatory) A rich person.
   • 1881, The Radical Review, page 11:

     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.

   • 2012 March 14, John K. White, Do the Math!: On Growth, Greed, and Strategic Thinking, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 312:

     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 fortune to the Melinda and Bill Gates […]