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单词 fundlord
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fundlord
fundlord n. [after landlord n.] depreciative (now historical) a magnate whose wealth derives from investment or speculation in government securities; cf. sense 3b.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > money-dealer > capitalist or financier
money-master1577
moneyed mana1593
financier1601
fooker1607
fowker1630
man of finance1701
moneyed interest1711
capitalist1774
fundlord1821
financialist1831
financian1840
financist1846
capitalizer1874
player1934
1821 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 21 Apr. 177 Having the Landlords with them and the people, too, which they will have by a Reform that they will find it their interest to grant, they may safely set the Fund-lords at defiance.
1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Jan. 154 The taxes being, in fact, tripled by Peel's Bill, the fundlords increase in riches.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Apr. 3/1 The Rothschild family..those land-absorbing Fund-lords.
1996 Social Hist. 21 275 By 1838 he [sc. John Knight] was writing of the robbery of working men not only by landlords and fundlords but also by ‘canal lords..and other sorts of lords’.
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