greedhead
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Noun[edit]
greedhead (plural greedheads)
- (informal) An avaricious person.
- 1996, Cornelius P. McCarthy, The Under 40 Financial Planning Guide:
- A good investor doesn't respect an urgent buck or short-term profit—only a greedhead thinks like that.
- 2009 March 29, David Olive, “Summiteers in rare unity on crisis”, in Toronto Star[1]:
- And the reckless greedheads at this tiny 400-person London outpost of the New York-based AIG were recently paid $165 million (U.S.) in bonuses for their massive incompetence in guaranteeing against default hundreds of billions of debt that did go bad.