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greedhead en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹid(ˌ)hɛd/

Etymology

From greed + -head.

Meanings

1. (informal) An avaricious person.
   • A good investor doesn't respect an urgent buck or short-term profit—only a greedhead thinks like that. 1996, Cornelius P. McCarthy, The Under 40 Financial Planning Guide:
   • And the reckless greedheads at this tiny 400-person London outpost of the New York-based AIG were recently paid $165 million (U.S.) in bonuses for their massive incompetence in guaranteeing against default hundreds of billions of debt that did go bad. 2009 March 29, David Olive, “Summiteers in rare unity on crisis”, in Toronto Star:

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