moneyed class
Example Sentences
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She was queer when it was not safe to be out, and lived for a spell in Europe where she didn’t quite fit in with the moneyed class.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
But as The Times’s Ken Vogel notes, winning over the moneyed class hasn’t guaranteed electoral success for years.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024
Even the moneyed class is facing food supply shortages.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022
But this year, the moneyed class began leaving the planet at a rapidly accelerating pace.
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2021
The rise of manufactures had hastened these changes, both by creating a new moneyed class, and by favoring the increase of independent mill-hands having the suffrage and little or no property.
From Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Hart, Albert Bushnell
