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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
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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.
Superich get to win 'lotto' .. every year by The Mirror (London, England)
I'm sure that in the end the truth will come out and fat cat or not Mr Ainsworth should not have made people wait to see his expenses but then again he shouldn't have voted against MPs expenses being released under the Freedom of Information Act, but he did.
Keep up the pressure on 'fat cat' MPs; Letters by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
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.
Make fat cat bosses pay; LETTERS to the EDITOR by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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