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fortune-hunter

noun

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of fortune hunter.

    • "There is no character more contemptible than a man that is a fortune-hunter, and I can see no reason why fortune-hunting women should not be contemptible too."
    • [H]e did not know of what use money could be to a woman, except to make her a prey to a fortune-hunter.
    • "The stock-exchange, the pulpit, the counting-house, the royal drawing-room, the senate,—what but fortune-hunters are they filled with?"

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