greed monster

plural greed monsters

1. An extremely greedy thing or person; especially an avaricious powerful person, often a banker or wealthy investor.

   He keeps near him opium and a dagger as a last resort, but still he cannot die. And there are troubles, too, from the outside; want of money for the remorseless greed-monster, as he calls his sickness; quarrels with his family, and neglect of friends.

   1882 July 29, The London Quarterly Review, volume LVIII, London, page 437

   1 more example

   This network of neoliberal think tanks, or cabal of ravenous greedmonsters as I like to think of them, is still running its 70-year-long project to destroy state capacity, and to reduce government — in the words of Grover Norquist, American free market jihadist and half-melted wax museum Jabba the Hutt exhibit — to something small enough to drown in a bathtub.

   2026 June 3, John Birmingham, “Neoliberalism ate the world. Enter: Pauline Hanson”, in Crikey

   Synonyms: greedmeister