"gainseeker" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From gain + seeker.",
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      "form": "gainseekers",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1908 January 4, John Muir, “The Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin, volume VI, number 4:",
          "text": "Nevertheless, like everything else worth while, however sacred and precious and well-guarded, they have always been subject to attack, mostly by despoiling gainseekers, -- mischief-makers of every degree from Satan to supervisors, lumbermen, cattlemen, farmers, etc., eagerly trying to make everything dollarable, often thinly disguised in smiling philanthropy, calling pocket-filling plunder \"Utilization of beneficent natural resources, that man and beast may be fed and the dear Nation grow great.\"",
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        "A greedy person; one who seeks wealth or other personal benefit."
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        [
          "greedy",
          "greedy"
        ],
        [
          "seek",
          "seek"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "gainseeking"
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  "word": "gainseeker"
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  "etymology_text": "From gain + seeker.",
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    {
      "form": "gainseekers",
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    {
      "word": "gainseeking"
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          "text": "Nevertheless, like everything else worth while, however sacred and precious and well-guarded, they have always been subject to attack, mostly by despoiling gainseekers, -- mischief-makers of every degree from Satan to supervisors, lumbermen, cattlemen, farmers, etc., eagerly trying to make everything dollarable, often thinly disguised in smiling philanthropy, calling pocket-filling plunder \"Utilization of beneficent natural resources, that man and beast may be fed and the dear Nation grow great.\"",
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        "A greedy person; one who seeks wealth or other personal benefit."
      ],
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          "seek",
          "seek"
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          "wealth",
          "wealth"
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