Quaestuary (adj) (archaic)
kwee-stoo-ree
Concerned with profit; moneymaking.
Late 16th century: from Latin quaestuarius, from quaestus ‘gain’.
Example sentences
“The quaestuary class have the media in their pockets.”
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