moneyed class

Example Sentences

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She was queer when it was not safe to be out, and lived for a spell in Europe where she didn’t quite fit in with the moneyed class.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

Even the moneyed class is facing food supply shortages.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2022

But this year, the moneyed class began leaving the planet at a rapidly accelerating pace.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2021

Suddenly not among the moneyed class, she hustled herself through the redbrick boondocks of the University of Vermont.

From The Verge • May 12, 2021

For the whole force of the break-up of feudal conditions was to turn the direction of power into the hands of a small, but moneyed class.

From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede