the grey pound

noun [S] UK (US the gray dollar) ECONOMICS, MARKETING

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› the money that older people as a group have available to spend in an economy : Planning authorities have to take into account the increasing economic importance of the grey pound.

(Definition of the grey pound noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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