deep pockets
Ability to spend
Deep pockets means substantial financial resources.
Someone with deep pockets can afford expensive things or absorb significant costs: The lawsuit targeted the corporation—they have deep pockets.
The phrase often implies the ability to outspend others or weather financial pressure.
A deep-pocketed investor has money to burn.
Person worth ten figures
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
- magnateWealthy business leader
- plutocratRuler through wealth
oligarch · heir · heiress · fortune · riches · affluence · prosperity · moneyed
Deploying capital for returns
- capitalWealth used for investment
- backingAid or sponsorship
- sponsorshipFunded endorsement arrangement
- endowmentPermanent donated fund
grant · subsidy · donation · contribution · bankroll · financing · resources · reserves
Advocating to decision-makers
- cloutInformal power or punch
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
- swayRock back and forth
- pullForce toward oneself
connections · powerbroker · kingmaker · access · patronage · political donor · campaign contribution · special interest
billionaire
Person worth ten figures
- millionairePerson possessing great wealth
- tycoonDominant industrial leader
- magnateWealthy business leader
plutocrat · oligarch · heir · heiress · fortune · riches · affluence · prosperity · moneyed · well-heeled
investment
Deploying capital for returns
- capitalWealth used for investment
- backingAid or sponsorship
- sponsorshipFunded endorsement arrangement
endowment · grant · subsidy · donation · contribution · bankroll · financing · resources · reserves · assets
lobbying
Advocating to decision-makers
pull · connections · powerbroker · kingmaker · access · patronage · political donor · campaign contribution · special interest · advocacy
- fat catstycoon, mogul, magnate, plutocrat, oligarch
- supportersfan, patron, supporters, backers, backer
- Wealthyrich, wealthy, affluent, affluence, wealth
- money idiomsarm and a leg, break the bank, penny pincher, cheapskate, tightwad
- gum diseasegum disease, gingivitis, periodontitis, periodontal disease, gum inflammation
- clothing idiomsfit like a glove, dressed to the nines, dressed to kill, wear the pants, caught with pants down
deep pocketscash-strapped
Lacking available money
broke · poor · penniless · impoverished · empty pockets
deep pocketscheapskate
Stingy person
tightwad · penny-pincher · miser · skinflint · tight-fisted
pocket, depth, deeply, depths, deepen, pockets, deepening, deepened, pocketing