chremato-, chremat- +

(Greek: acquisition of wealth by making money; transacting business to gain wealth; efforts made to possess goods and money; striving to be rich)

chrematist

1. Someone who studies wealth.
2. A political economist.

chrematistic

1. Referring to the gaining, or acquisition, of money.
2. Engaged in obtaining, developing, or earning wealth or a reference to a business in the pursuit of wealth.

chrematistics

1. The study of money and how to acquire it or to disperse it.
2. Relating to wealth and how it is calculated by money.

chrematistophilia, chrematistophily

A sexual perversion in which the necessary condition is that the relationship with the partner be on a monetary basis: the partner must charge the “client” or otherwise force him or her to pay for sex, or must "rob" or "blackmail" him or her.

The term is sometimes broadened to include sellers as well as clients, e.g. “compulsive” hustlers, prostitutes, and sexual blackmailers [so long as such activity is needed for their own sexual arousal and is not just their way of making money].

chrematomania

1. Obsessive desire for money.
2. A preoccupation with creating wealth.

chrometophobia, chrematophobia

1. A fear, or dread, of dealing with money.
2. A fear of wealth and the money associated with it.

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(Greek: acquisition of wealth by making money; transacting business to gain wealth; efforts made to possess goods and money; striving to be rich)

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