Usually means: Wealth inherited across multiple generations.
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  1. old money: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. old money: Merriam-Webster
  3. old money: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. old money: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. old-money, old-money, old money: Collins English Dictionary
  6. old money: Vocabulary.com
  7. old-money: Wordnik
  8. old money: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. old money: Wiktionary
  10. old money: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. old-money, old money: Dictionary.com
  12. Old Money (Lana Del Rey song), Old Money (The Simpsons), Old Money (The Simpsons episode), Old Money (album), Old Money (play), Old Money, Old money (disambiguation), Old money: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. old money: Rhymezone
  14. old money: FreeDictionary.org
  15. old money: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. old money: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See old_moneys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (old money)

noun:  (idiomatic, often derogatory) Families that have been wealthy for generations or members of such families.
noun:  (British, Ireland) The monetary system used in the United Kingdom and Ireland before decimalisation in 1971 and consisting of pounds, shillings, pence and farthings.
noun:  (humorous) The imperial system of measurement, as opposed to the metric system.

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