noun

• 1Wealth that has been recently acquired, typically that which a person has earned rather than inherited.

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  • ‘then came the new men with new money’

  1. 1.1People who have recently become wealthy, typically through earned income rather than an inheritance.
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     • ‘criminals, entrepreneurs, politicians, gangsters, old money and new money—all hang out in the same places, united by cash not class’