wealthmonger

English

Etymology

From wealth +‎ monger.

Noun

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 […]
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