"feather one's nest" meaning in English

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      "form": "feathered one's nest",
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      "form": "feathered one's nest",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1857, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “[Janet’s Repentance.] Chapter 13”, in Scenes of Clerical Life [...] In Two Volumes, volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published January 1858, →OCLC, page 229:",
          "text": "It may do him some harm, perhaps, but Dempster must have feathered his nest pretty well; he can afford to lose a little business.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Michael Moritz, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:",
          "text": "“It's a handful of west coast financiers doing what Wall Street bankers have long done—feathering their nests,” says Michael Moritz, the billionaire former leader of Sequoia Capital.",
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        "To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth."
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          "benefit"
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          "financial",
          "financial"
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        [
          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ],
        [
          "opportunities",
          "opportunity"
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        [
          "amass",
          "amass"
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          "wealth",
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        "(idiomatic) To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "every man for himself"
        },
        {
          "word": "featherbed"
        },
        {
          "word": "nest egg"
        }
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        {
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "enrich"
        },
        {
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "line one's pockets"
        },
        {
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "look out for number one"
        },
        {
          "word": "feather one's own nest"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "täyttää taskujaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "english": "to poke fire to one's cake",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "skara eld að eigin köku"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "english": "to poke fire to one's cake",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "skara eld að sinni köku"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "ota sínum tota"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "to warm one's hands",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nagrétʹ rúki",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "нагре́ть ру́ки"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "to stuff one's pockets",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "nabítʹ karmány",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "наби́ть карма́ны"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "hacer su agosto"
        },
        {
          "code": "wa",
          "english": "to fatten one's fingers",
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "s' ecråxhî les doets"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
          "word": "pluo ei nyth"
        }
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      "form": "feathered one's nest",
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    {
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "every man for himself"
    },
    {
      "word": "featherbed"
    },
    {
      "word": "nest egg"
    }
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          "opportunity"
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          "amass",
          "amass"
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          "wealth",
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        "(idiomatic) To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth."
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      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "enrich"
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    {
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "line one's pockets"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "look out for number one"
    },
    {
      "word": "feather one's own nest"
    }
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "täyttää taskujaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "to poke fire to one's cake",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "skara eld að eigin köku"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "to poke fire to one's cake",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "skara eld að sinni köku"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "ota sínum tota"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to warm one's hands",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nagrétʹ rúki",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "нагре́ть ру́ки"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to stuff one's pockets",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nabítʹ karmány",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "наби́ть карма́ны"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "hacer su agosto"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "english": "to fatten one's fingers",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "s' ecråxhî les doets"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to achieve benefits, especially financial ones",
      "word": "pluo ei nyth"
    }
  ],
  "word": "feather one's nest"
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