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undermoneyed en · ADJ

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Etymology

From under- + moneyed or under- + money + -ed.

Meanings

1. (rare) Insufficiently moneyed (monied; i.e. affluent); in possession of insufficient money; poor.
   • [I thought] George Bush's tax cut for the wealthy, enacted while he was aggressively taxing my unemployment checks, was an assault not on the undermoneyed masses but on me alone. 2004, Fred Moody, Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story, →ISBN, page 278:
   • Nevertheless, the Church of England has been and is, in the towns, both undermanned and (if the word may be excused) undermoneyed. 1883, The Churchman, page 52:

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undermonied