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单词 coupon-clipper
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Definition of coupon-clipper in English:

coupon-clipper

noun
North American informal
  • A person with a large number of interest-bearing bonds.

    〈北美,非正式〉剪息票的人(指拥有大量息票债券的人)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • From producers of real goods they become coupon-clippers.
    • While the twenty-eight million Americans working for poverty-level wages are scarcely mentioned, we are treated to a lengthy portrait of the sober-minded coupon-clippers of America.
    • But they have taken to a coupon-clipper financial route to easy consumerist material gain, to their own cultural degradation and the world's ecological destruction.
    • It is most commonly found among former math majors, chronic coupon-clippers and old ladies who still use tiny change purses.
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