dollarchaser

plural dollarchasers

1. datedfigurativelyrareSomeone who fervently pursues money or wealth.

   No! No! - she had stopped caring for him - if she ever had cared - because he was unworthy of her, he, the mere dollarchaser.

   1913, David Graham Phillips, Degarmo's Wife, And Other Stories, page 179

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   In our day and generation, when the world is afflicted with so many mountebanks, dollarchasers, and society worshippers in the pupit - Rev. Young Sprouts who are more concerned with the cut of their coat.

   1909, John M. Dorney, “The Parson's Secret”, in The Bridgemen's Magazine, volume 9, page 356

   I hope I shall not seem to be an "American dollarchaser" in thinking that this financial showing, remarkable in such a period as we are passing through, is evidence of something infinitely more important in spiritual values and in moral power.

   1921, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Congress, Report of the Third International Congress of Women, Vienna, July 10-17, 1921, page 199