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person of means

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The coin’s owner might have been a person of means: “To have currency with you, particularly a full silver shilling, it’s not like someone carrying around a few copper farthings. … But it’s really impossible to know.”

“Really?? This is unhealthy for your family, the planet and demonstrates survival of the most abject kind. For a person of means and intelligence it’s pretty thoughtless on so many levels.”

A person of means could buy a rare or exotic vehicle and take it straight from the showroom it was bought from and on to a show ground.

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These days, he prefers “a person of means” because billionaires have become shorthand for income inequality, tax cuts and special interests.

It was Valentine’s Day in Washington, and Republicans and Democrats nationwide had put aside their mutual contempt to share the greatest love of all: hating Schultz, the former Starbucks chief executive and “person of means” who says he may run for president as an independent.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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