English Explanatory Dictionary

Moneygeddon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The late-2000s world economic recession.

Pronunciation

mŭ'nēgĕʹdən /ˌmʌniːˈɡɛdən/

Word forms

Moneygeddon

Etymology

Coined by Danielle Ward and a public-relations think-tank for the first episode of the first series of Newswipe with Charlie Brooker, first televised on Wednesday 25 March in 2009 on BBC Four: money + -geddon, from Armageddon (“the end of the world”).

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