old money

noun [U] informal

Definition

› ECONOMICS families that have been rich for a long time, considered as a group: The new billionaires and millionaires are reluctant to adopt the practice of America's old money.

(Definition of old money noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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