Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of accumulating money or acquiring wealth.
- Lucrative; profitable: as, a money-making business.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.
- adjective Affording profitable returns; lucrative. Opposite of
unprofitable . - adjective Successful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
acquisition ofmoney - adjective that acquires money
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of making money (and accumulating wealth)
- adjective producing a sizeable profit
- adjective profit oriented
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Examples
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In this way, they avoid catastrophes such as those that have occurred in recent years where the money-making of a few, pushed by short-term interests, has endangered the prosperity of many.
Dr. Pablo Hafner: The Wisdom of Family Firms: Lessons Learned from the Financial Crisis Dr. Pablo Hafner 2011
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US and put him on a speaker phone to pitch the bond money-making scheme.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Wherever Keith's leave-taking fell on the "You're fired"/"You can't fire me, I quit" continuum, the affair suggests an oft-told but rarely remembered lesson in hubris: You may be valuable, you may even be irreplaceable -- a genius and a money-making machine rolled into one.
Michael Sigman: One More Thing About Keith Michael Sigman 2011
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Her pioneering microfinance project connects online donors worldwide to Chinese borrowers hoping to raise sheep, grow mushrooms or follow other money-making plans.
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Her pioneering microfinance project connects online donors worldwide to Chinese borrowers hoping to raise sheep, grow mushrooms or follow other money-making plans.
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Wherever Keith's leave-taking fell on the "You're fired"/"You can't fire me, I quit" continuum, the affair suggests an oft-told but rarely remembered lesson in hubris: You may be valuable, you may even be irreplaceable -- a genius and a money-making machine rolled into one.
Michael Sigman: One More Thing About Keith Michael Sigman 2011
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The Glazers would no doubt claim that United's unique money-making ability means the club warrants a higher valuation but not everything is rosy at Old Trafford.
If Qatar really wants to buy Manchester United then £1.5bn is way over the odds | Andy Green 2011
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For Harry Del Mar, who was base, and who had been further abased by his money-making desire for the possession of Michael, had had his baseness sensed by Michael from the beginning.
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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"He stole a money-making machine, a proven money-making machine," Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas G.A. Brown said.
Ex-SocGen Trader Gets 3 Years in Code Theft Chad Bray 2011
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I felt like a money-making zombie, something I used to accuse my parents of being.
Twenty-three-year-olds Shouldn't Be Writing Memoirs (Ch 6) Robert David Moseley 2011
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