GRESHAM

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• GRESHAM (noun)
  The noun GRESHAM has 1 sense:

1. English financier (1519-1579)

  Familiarity information: GRESHAM used as a noun is very rare.

• GRESHAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English financier (1519-1579)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gresham; Sir Thomas Gresham

Instance hypernyms:

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

 Context examples 

I carefully preserved them all; and having since shown them, with some other curiosities, in several parts of Europe, upon my return to England I gave three of them to Gresham College, and kept the fourth for myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It is known that Mr. Jonas Oldacre had received a late visitor in his bedroom upon that night, and the stick found has been identified as the property of this person, who is a young London solicitor named John Hector McFarlane, junior partner of Graham and McFarlane, of 426, Gresham Buildings, E.C.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)