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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The desire, love, or avarice for money and/or wealth; love of money..
Most of the Jungle Bar people ignored the Money—lovers. They thought they were out of their heads on money—love all the time.
This passage reveals what money-love really is. A root is hidden in the evil; what it is we eventually see from the growth it sends up (snares and temptations). Money-love produces many hurts, worries, pains of conscience, and hurtful temptations which result in spiritual drifting.
The predicate naturally lacks the article so that we should not stress either "a root" or "the root." Money-love is "root of all the evils"; [...]
Use money-love when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Money-love means The desire, love, or avarice for money and/or wealth; love of money..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Most of the Jungle Bar people ignored the Money—lovers. They thought they were out of their heads on money—love all the time.
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