moneymakers

noun

plural of moneymaker
as in money-spinners

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  1. capitalists
  2. plutocrats
  3. silk stockings
  4. tycoons
  5. magnates
Noun
  • Venture capitalists are often willing to fund an entrepreneur who has persevered and improved an idea or product through trial and error.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026
  • Each week Bloomberg's award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change — venture capitalists, scientists, politicians who have created climate laws, and CEOs who have transformed their businesses.
    — Anjali Chaudhry, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of capitalists
Noun
  • Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors.
    — Graydon Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
  • Then the plutocrats circled their yachts.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of plutocrats
Noun
  • The record also states that the boys were wearing heavy wool coats and silk stockings in the middle of summer in Philly.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • In Girard’s household, at least three women would have mended his silk stockings and other clothes.
    — Emily J. Whitted, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of silk stockings
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  • That has created mounting public resistance as tech companies concentrate historic levels of wealth in the hands of a select group of tycoons.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • Despite the turmoil set off by the Iran war and border skirmishes with Cambodia, the country’s tycoons are collectively richer and its stock market has surged as Thailand positions itself as a regional data center hub powered by green energy.
    — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of tycoons
Noun
  • The verdict cleared a legal cloud hanging over OpenAI's restructuring right as both magnates were steering their companies toward the public market.
    — Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Newspapers fell into the hands of magnates who advanced their own interests.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of magnates
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