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press money

American  

noun

British Obsolete.
  1. prest money.


Etymology

Origin of press money

First recorded in 1550–60

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Suggestions that the U. S. was embarking on a wild era of printing press money were sternly repudiated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Borah looked worried as the gentleman from Oklahoma droned on & on, about his favorite theme: printing press money.

From Time Magazine Archive

The banks begin to press: money is tight, as it is now while I write.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

He had grown lavish in hospitality; he had become almost aggressively open-handed to his comrades, and had sought to press money upon men who in no wise needed it.

From The Deserter by King, Charles

They came again to give me press money, but I would take none.

From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)

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