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fat cat
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fat cat
n. Slang
1. A wealthy and highly privileged person.
2. A wealthy person who is a heavy contributor to a political campaign.

fat cat
n
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a.  a very wealthy or influential person
b.  (as modifier) a fat-cat industrialist
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Noun1.fat cat - a wealthy and privileged personfat cat - a wealthy and privileged person      
have, rich person, wealthy person - a person who possesses great material wealth
Translations
fat cat
n (fig inf)überbezahlter Topmanager, überbezahlte Topmanagerin, fette Katze (inf)


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It's the equivalent of a major Lotto win for these fat cats - except they get to enjoy the bonanza year after year.
Remember the fat cats responsible for the current crisis were private sector bosses, and it is they who should pay for the problems they have caused.
As soon as the price of oil went up the fat cats could not wait to put up gas prices.
 
 
 
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