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new money

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Persons or families that have recently become wealthy.
Synonym: nouveau riche
Hypernym: big money

(Britain) The decimal monetary system used in the United Kingdom since 1971.

(humorous) The metric system of measurement, as opposed to the imperial system.
This recipe says add eight ounces of flour; what's that in new money?

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These proposals included cries for billions of new money for social assistance in the name of "child poverty” and for more business subsidies in the name of "cultural identity. In both cases I was sought out as a rare public figure to oppose such projects.”. Stephen Harper

In the new money system we abolish interest and inflation, thereby reducing the prices of all goods and services as well as taxes by about 40%. Margrit Kennedy

The new rules of competition require managers to start by asking what's important to their customers and where the company can make new money. Then, they need to reinvent their businesses to create the next profit zones. Adrian Slywotzky

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead. Peter York

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