Definition
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; especially, to do so to a degree that involves venality.
In Context
- "It may do him some harm, perhaps, but Dempster must have feathered his nest pretty well; he can afford to lose a little business."
- "“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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See Also
- every man for himself
- featherbed
- nest egg