单词 | fundlord |
释义 | > as lemmasfundlord fundlord n. [after landlord n.] depreciative (now historical) a magnate whose wealth derives from investment or speculation in government securities; cf. sense 3b. ΘΚΠ 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’. < as lemmas |
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