undermoneyed
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From under- + moneyed or under- + money + -ed.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]undermoneyed (comparative more undermoneyed, superlative most undermoneyed)
- (rare) Insufficiently moneyed (monied; i.e. affluent); in possession of insufficient money; poor.
- 1883, The Churchman, page 52:
- Nevertheless, the Church of England has been and is, in the towns, both undermanned and (if the word may be excused) undermoneyed.
- 2004, Fred Moody, Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story, →ISBN, page 278:
- [I thought] George Bush's tax cut for the wealthy, enacted while he was aggressively taxing my unemployment checks, was an assault not on the undermoneyed masses but on me alone.