moneyman

noun

mon·​ey·​man ˈmə-nē-ˌman How to pronounce moneyman (audio)

Examples of moneyman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As the long-serving chief financial officer for Mr. Trump’s family business — his trusted moneyman — Mr. Weisselberg was considered a linchpin in efforts to implicate him. Kate Christobek, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024 He became known as a moneyman who could be relied upon to drum up funding for promotional activities on behalf of judicial appointees, providing media training for key pundits or creating grassroots support through advertising campaigns and other means. Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 11 July 2022 Graydon Carter has been accused of purposefully removing references to Jeffrey Epstein's predation from the pages of Vanity Fair, which allowed the moneyman to go undetected for years. Justine Harman, Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2023 Manchin’s moneymen: Roll Call looks at the top donors, industries and lobbyists that have helped fill West Virginia Joe Manchin’s campaign coffers. Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2023 Frank Giannuzzi and Steven Bellino were New York moneymen. Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 1 Apr. 2023 Henry Fairfield Osborn, a paleontologist who worked at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, was the moneyman: scion of a railroad family, nephew to the corporate raider J. P. Morgan, boyhood chums with Theodore Roosevelt, as well as an insufferable racist and avowed eugenicist. Steve Brusatte, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022 Elon Musk’s main moneyman is a Latter-day Saint. David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022 No moneyman can win my love. Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of moneyman was in 1845

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“Moneyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moneyman. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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