press money
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of press money
First recorded in 1550–60
Example Sentences
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Mr. Borah looked worried as the gentleman from Oklahoma droned on & on, about his favorite theme: printing press money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suggestions that the U. S. was embarking on a wild era of printing press money were sternly repudiated.
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
They came again to give me press money, but I would take none.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by L. V. (Lucy Violet) Hodgkin
Nothing, sir, but that he will not take press money.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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