big money
English
Alternative forms
- big-money
Noun
big money (uncountable)
- A large amount of money, especially a significant source of revenue or income.
- 2011, Steve Gillman, 101 Weird Ways to Make Money, page 143:
- When people see puppies going for the cost of vaccinations at animal shelters, and then hear about ones that sell for $500, they think big money is to be had in dog breeding.
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- (politics) Large corporations, or corporate interest generally, seen as exerting political influence and prioritising profits over other political concerns.
- 2011, Rick Martin, No Money!: The Surviving Middle Class American, page 31:
- Republicans push Big Government to raise cash from one religious sect, but stomp on Big Government antitrust measures that prevent big money control of illegal monopolistic corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft.
- 2016, Cornel West, The Guardian, 17 November:
- The political triumph of Donald Trump shattered the establishments in the Democratic and Republican parties – both wedded to the rule of Big Money and to the reign of meretricious politicians.
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Adjective
big money (not comparable)
- Involving or transacting a large amount of money.
- 1997, David Reynolds, Democracy Unbound:
- Unless their candidates can amass a considerable campaign chest, one assumed to come from big money donors, they do not stand a chance of winning.
- 2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC:
- The Blues, without new big-money signings Fernando Torres and David Luiz, relied on their old guard to dig them out of an early hole.
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