单词 | money-quake |
释义 | > as lemmasmoney-quake money-quake n. now rare a major financial crash. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > financial loss > [noun] > commercial failure > general crash1817 money-quake1841 1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man III. iii. 67 A money-quake, whose explosion should hurl all their fortunes into the air. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. iii. 102 At the time of the general money-quake, he fell like the rest—failing for an immense sum. 1908 M. A. Grainger Woodsmen of West xxi. 132 Carter and Allen, tottering through no fault of theirs, shaken by some tremor of the New York money-quake. 1954 J. A. Reynolds Catholic Emancipation Crisis Irel. 1823–29 v. 73 In 1826 the shock of the money quake in England reached across the Irish Sea. < as lemmas |
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