big money
Appearance
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- A large amount of money, especially a significant source of revenue or income.
- 2011, Steve Gillman, 101 Weird Ways to Make Money, page 143:
- When people see puppies going for the cost of vaccinations at animal shelters, and then hear about ones that sell for $500, they think big money is to be had in dog breeding.
- (politics) Large corporations, the people who run them, or corporate interest generally, seen as exerting political influence and prioritising profits over other political concerns.
- Hyponyms: new money, old money
- Coordinate terms: big business, corporatocracy
- 2011, Rick Martin, No Money!: The Surviving Middle Class American, page 31:
- Republicans push Big Government to raise cash from one religious sect, but stomp on Big Government antitrust measures that prevent big money control of illegal monopolistic corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft.
- 2016 January 29, Paul Krugman, “Plutocrats and Prejudice”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- To oversimplify a bit […] the [Bernie] Sanders view is that money is the root of all evil. Or more specifically, the corrupting influence of big money, of the 1 percent and the corporate elite, is the overarching source of the political ugliness we see all around us.
- 2016 November 17, Cornel West, “Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here”, in The Guardian[2]:
- The political triumph of Donald Trump shattered the establishments in the Democratic and Republican parties – both wedded to the rule of Big Money and to the reign of meretricious politicians.
- 2021 August 5, David Brooks, “The Biden Approach Is Working”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is skeptical: The Republican Party has gone authoritarian. Mitch McConnell is obstructionist. Big money pulls the strings. The system is broken.
Adjective
[edit]big money (not comparable)
- Involving or transacting a large amount of money.
- 1997, David Reynolds, Democracy Unbound:
- Unless their candidates can amass a considerable campaign chest, one assumed to come from big money donors, they do not stand a chance of winning.
- 2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC[4]:
- The Blues, without new big-money signings Fernando Torres and David Luiz, relied on their old guard to dig them out of an early hole.