fortune hunters
Mercenary marriage candidates
Fortune hunters are people who seek wealth through marriage rather than earning it themselves.
The term usually carries disapproval—implying calculated pursuit of a rich spouse: Her father warned her about fortune hunters.
More broadly, fortune hunters may be adventurers seeking treasure, gold, or other riches: Fortune hunters flooded California during the Gold Rush.
- gold-diggerOne pursuing wealthy partners
- marriage marketSpouse-seeking social sphere
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
- mapSpatial representation of terrain
- buried treasureValuables interred for safekeeping
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- Regency SocietyRegency, manners, etiquette, courtship, ballrooms
- gold minersforty-niners, prospectors, panners, gold diggers, gold seekers
- frontier Americapioneers, settlers, homesteaders, homesteading, sodbusters
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heirs, heiress
- money storiesheist story, rags to riches, white collar crime, financial ruin, heist novels
fortune huntersphilanthropists
Generous supporters of good causes
benefactors · sugar daddies · sugar mamas · easy marks · ascetics
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