fortune hunter
noun
a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
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fortune-hunternouna person who seeks to secure a fortune, esp through marriage
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Origin of fortune hunter
First recorded in 1680–90
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She called the matter a “horrific and vulgar fraud” perpetrated by a fortune hunter.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2023
He was freed from the misery of that boarding school only when Sarah, having been bilked by a fortune hunter, went broke and had to withdraw him.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
A fortune hunter charms a doctor’s plain daughter in 19th-century New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
Original owner John McConnell was a fortune hunter, and the Double Eagle was a rare doubloon discovered in a sunken treasure.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 4, 2017
Why had Quinzy gone to so much trouble to bring this fortune hunter and his ostrich to Ashton Place?
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
The heroes have all been reduced to just one or two identifiable traits: One’s a conspiracy theorist, one’s a fortune-hunter, one’s religious and so on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
Roguish fortune-hunter Nathan Drake returned for his fourth adventure this year, setting out to discover the lost treasure of pirate captain Henry Avery – while also saving his troubled marriage to fellow adventurer, Elena.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2016
No social climber, no fortune-hunter is "Jimmy" Cromwell.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has no money and has no prospects, but I do not think he is a fortune-hunter.
From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
But, indeed, it so rarely happens that an Italian girl of high name marries a foreigner, that we must dismiss this notion with a smile at the long face of the hypothetical fortune-hunter.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
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