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(archaic, derogatory, British slang) Someone who is not a trade unionist.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, historical) By extension, any beggar who pretends to be ill, physically or mentally, to obtain alms.
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Alternative form of Abraham man [(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, historical) A mentally ill beggar.]
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Alternative form of Abraham man [(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, historical) A mentally ill beggar.]
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Alternative form of Abraham man [(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, historical) A mentally ill beggar.]
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The chief of a band of thieves or gypsies.
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The sale or purchase of religious or political positions of power.
v
Synonym of beggar belief
adj
(derogatory, economics, trade) An economic policy that favors domestic interests at greater total cost to the economies of trading partners.
n
Alternative spelling of beggar-thy-neighbor
n
One who beggars another.
n
The class of beggars generally.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a beggar: poor, wheedling, insolent, etc.
adj
Characteristic or typical of a beggar
adv
In the manner of a beggar; by begging or scrounging.
adj
(simile, UK, slang) Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded.
n
(slang, baseball, dated, 19th century) A person displaying unsportsmanlike behavior.
n
(slang) greed for money, especially among politicians
n
(slang) Synonym of boodlerism (“greed for money, especially among politicians”)
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Someone who lives at the poverty level.
n
That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
n
(historical) Synonym of couple-beggar
n
(Scotland, law) suretyship
n
(idiomatic, derogatory) A person employed by a charity, or by an intermediary fundraising agency employed by the charity, who stands in the street and invites passersby to set up standing orders or direct debits to make regular donations to the charity.
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(transitive, obsolete) to bargain for, ask the price of.
n
One who seeks to acquire wealth; a money-grubber.
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A beggar who would apply blood or sores to his body in order to gain attention and attract more alms
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Obsolete spelling of dacoity [(chiefly India, Myanmar) Violent robbery carried out by a dacoit or a gang of dacoits.]
n
Alternative form of dacoity [(chiefly India, Myanmar) Violent robbery carried out by a dacoit or a gang of dacoits.]
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(obsolete) People; companions.
v
To conduct, escort, convey.
v
(obsolete) To woo or flirt with.
n
(dated) A brisk, merry person.
n
One who falls for, believes in or pursues a get-rich-quick scheme.
v
(intransitive, with with) To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
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The practice of depending on gombeens, or money-lenders.
n
Obsolete spelling of gaveller [(obsolete) A usurer.]
n
A corrupt person, one who receives graft.
n
(figuratively) A source of easily obtained money or benefits.
n
(Britain, informal) An ordinary member of the public who intervenes, often at personal risk, to stop a troublemaker, hooligan or ne'er-do-well in the act of committing a crime.
n
(obsolete) A worthless literary attempt; a piece of bad writing.
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(obsolete) A writer of begging letters.
adj
Resembling theft, often applied to legal actions that seem unfair.
n
A poor person, a beggar.
n
The person in a relationship who is left by the other.
n
(figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
v
To commit usury (to loan money at excessive rate of interest), especially if collecting under threat of violence.
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Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
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(Yiddish usage) a beggar, petty trader, peddler, and various types of paupers
n
One who is financially irresponsible.
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A pauper who lives by begging.
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A person who is poor but eternally optimistic, believing that "something will turn up", like the fictional character Wilkins Micawber in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield.
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Alternative spelling of moneygrubber [A person who is avariciously and greedily intent on accumulating money.]
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A person who is avariciously and greedily intent on accumulating money.
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(obsolete) A miser; a niggard.
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(archaic) A beggar or vagrant, especially a professional one; (earlier especially) a lecher.
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(obsolete, slang) A professional beggar.
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(dated) Thievery or roguery.
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A person, business or profession marked by avarice and greed
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(obsolete) A ribibe or rebec.
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(chiefly US, idiomatic, usually derogatory) Especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a business tycoon who had great wealth and influence but whose methods were morally questionable and often unethical.
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A person who compromises his or her principles for financial gain.
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Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
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(informal) A minor or unimportant spoiler (disclosure of the ending to a story etc.).
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Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
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One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
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(UK, historical) A person who was fit and able to work, but lived as a beggar or vagrant instead.
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(archaic, slang) A thief who dresses well and tries to appear respectable.
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(derogatory, finance) a takeover artist who loads a venture up with debt while extracting capital for profit, making the firm go bankrupt
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