big money
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2.0
- noun
- What is needed is to get the big money out of the political system.
- make big money
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- And that's why, you know, people pay big money to sponsor on podcasts.
- When you got your your first big money, what did you splurge on?
- But these influences are getting fights and pay big money on big, big shows, big stages.
- It'll require three things, a charismatic leader, money, big money, a Michael Bloomberg kind of money.
- to society, people, companies, they're not willing to pay big money for, I call that low income skills.
- You got a term sheet, you're selling, getting big money.
- But he is they're all in the grip of big money.
- So if your Arsenal, you're thinking big money was spent during the summer, do we need Tony now?
- And it was not, it was a little trickle of money, not not big money like the Germans did for blitzkrieg.
- And because of that, he makes big decisions, he makes big money.
- And so as a result of that, a good chunk of the big money in the world is not super ethical, right?
- It is the power of big money to make a politicians dependent on those folks.
Examples
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Oh, I would pay big money to see that woman climb a mountain.
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The last of the big money had changed hands once before.
Fiction book (1996) -
I know it sounds weird, but people pay big money for them.
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You would have made big money.
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All the big money is there.
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The big money will come.
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My first gift to her when I began making big money was when she came to the States.
Fiction book (1994) -
The teacher can ask them to provide examples of people who they think make big money because of luck.
Academic text (2004) -
I never tell people to go into freelance writing as a way to make big money.
Academic text (2009) -
Many investors are looking for opportunities where they can earn big money quickly.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large amount of money that lets you buy expensive things or do big projects
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4.2
A lot of money that someone earns or gets
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2.8
A very large amount of money
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7.1
A large amount of money
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4.4
A large amount of money
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3.3
A large amount of money that is more than you expect
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3.0
A lot of money
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6.1
A very large amount of money often about one million dollars
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7.4
A very large amount of money
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a large amount of money' is directly derived from combining the adjective 'big' (large/significant) with the noun 'money'; this is a literal adjective+noun composition with no idiomatic shift. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and therefore a B1 learner who knows both words can reliably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Big money comes from the simple picture of very large bags or piles of cash; when money is called big it means the amount is large or important, so 'big money' means 'a large amount of money'.