单词 | money hunting |
释义 | > as lemmasmoney hunting money hunting adj. and n. (a) adj. that seeks to obtain money; (b) the action of a money-hunter. ΚΠ 1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 370 The plodding, money-hunting tribe. 1832 J. Hall Legends of West 65 If you do but quit money-hunting, I am satisfied. 1859 Weekly Globe (Toronto) 16 Dec. in Jrnl. Negro Hist. 6 (1921) 177 The money-hunting, cotton-worshipping world. 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 103 And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. 1994 Denver Post (Nexis) 30 Apr. c1 The software package has sold more to brokers than individual companies, which often hire specialists to do their money hunting. < as lemmas |
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