fortune hunter

fortune hunter

noun
a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.

Origin:
1680–90

for·tune-hunt·ing, adjective, noun
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Fortune hunter is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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fortune hunter

noun
a person who seeks wealth through marriage 
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