单词 | property monger |
释义 | > as lemmasproperty monger property monger n. ΚΠ 1719 Computation Increase of London 18 The Attendance of his Vassals, so far of Property-mongers, and Trafickers of Liberty. 1819 L. T. Berguer Warning Let. His Royal Highness Prince Regent 52 They may cry aloud to the property-mongers, the Mammon worshippers of the land, and the town and country gentry. 1897 Q. Rev. Oct. 349 Rant and frippery that befit a third-rate actor or a second-hand property-monger. 1910 N. A. Richardson Industr. Probl. i. vii. 76 They are now dominated by a relatively few members of our order of property-mongers. 1966 R. Church London iv. 155 Parliament and property-mongers haggle indifferently about the economics of future development. < as lemmas |
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