单词 | to have a licence to print money |
释义 | > as lemmasto have a licence to print money transitive. to print money: to manufacture paper money; (figurative) to make large or easy profits (esp. in to have a licence to print money). ΚΠ 1771 B. Franklin Let. in Writings (1987) 1368 I wrote and printed an anonymous Pamphlet..entituled, The Nature & Necessity of a Paper Currency... My Friends..thought fit to reward me, by employing me in printing the Money, a very profitable Jobb. 1846 W. Whitman Article 3 Sept. in Gathering of Forces (1920) II. iv. 68 The general average of the payment for labor in this country..would be nominally raised..by what is called ‘making money plenty’—that is, letting the banks print money, and doubling the amount in circulation. 1889 Century Aug. 611/2 A dozen negroes..printed money on hand-presses all day to supply the Government. 1948 Los Angeles Times 25 Dec. iii. 1/2 A license to print money. 1967 Listener 21 Sept. 364/2 Lord Thomson of Fleet brought his genius for printing money to the rescue of the Times. 1991 Economist 3 Aug. 78/2 Investors would become more aware of credit risk, since a government in trouble could no longer print money and devalue. 2003 Village Voice (N.Y.) 19 Nov. 100/3 Even when CD sales are slack, music publishers pretty much have a license to print money. < as lemmas |
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