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money-ridden en · ADJ

Etymology

From money + ridden.

Meanings

1. Dominated or driven by money.
   • Missinaba County […] is a regular hive of politics, and not the miserable, crooked, money-ridden politics of the cities, but the straight, real old-fashioned thing that is an honour to the country side. 1912, Stephen Leacock, “The Great Election”, in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, London: John Lane, page 219:
   • The candidates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, have been presenting themselves as dedicated reformers of the money-ridden political process — just not for the weeks of freebie conventioneering. 2008 August 20, “The Hands That Feed Them”, in New York Times:
   • Taken at face value, [the novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying] describes a man’s fight to be a poet and a free spirit in a money-ridden society. 1958, Anthony West, “George Orwell”, in Principles and Persuasions: The Literary Essays of Anthony West, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, page 150:

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