Etymology

Moneygeddon

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Today it means: The late-2000s world economic recession. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by Danielle Ward and a public-relations think-tank for the first episode of the first series of Newswipe with Charlie Brooker, first televised on Wednesday 25 March in 2009 on BBC Four: money + -geddon, from Armageddon (“the end of the world”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.