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Meanings of monied in English

Based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth.

Usage of monied in English
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At present it is the preserve of insiders and their monied backers.
The Irish Times
2
A monied stake is usually proposed, as the object to be obtained.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
3
The more monied the punters inside looked, the more furtive their air.
Perdido Street Station
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Meanwhile, local girls are finding it hard to resist the monied pirates.
Reuters
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Most monied men had paid their way out of the draft.
The irish devil
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But also this: Draco was extended by the vastly monied classes of Earth.
Nova
7
First Englishman, in the monied interest-flushed ,highlyrespectable-StockExchange, perhaps-City, certainly.
Reprinted Pieces
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Yet whereas we were out-at-elbows, the carpenters were sleek, respectable, monied, well-clad fellows.
Through Russia
9
Fair or not, it instantly labeled Glass wearers as part of the monied class.
Wired
10
This general attachment of a monied victory to cards is productive frequently of evil.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
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The monied arrangement is to be made by Mr. Kinnaird.
A Publisher and His Friends / Memoir and Correspondence of John ...
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He was born into small-town Southern aristocracy, the youngest son of a monied family.
Mom over miami
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None but the monied aristocracy among them, would be likely to decline such offers.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
14
They could have consoled themselves that Worcester were too strong, too deep, too monied.
The Irish Times
15
Col. Jones would have stood by Francis' interests as a banker and monied man.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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Mumbai is crowded with billboards advertising mutual funds and insurance policies to the country's newly-monied.
Reuters
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