Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or process of accumulating money or acquiring wealth.
- Lucrative; profitable: as, a money-making business.
Wiktionary
- n. the acquisition of money
- adj. that acquires money
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.
- adj. Affording profitable returns; lucrative. Opposite of
unprofitable . - adj. Successful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of making money (and accumulating wealth)
- adj. producing a sizeable profit
- adj. profit oriented
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“He stole a money-making machine, a proven money-making machine," Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas G.A. Brown said.”
The Wall Street Journal: Ex-SocGen Trader Gets 3 Years in Code Theft
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Sigman: One More Thing About Keith
“Her pioneering microfinance project connects online donors worldwide to Chinese borrowers hoping to raise sheep, grow mushrooms or follow other money-making plans.”
“I felt like a money-making zombie, something I used to accuse my parents of being.”
Fictionaut: Twenty-three-year-olds Shouldn't Be Writing Memoirs (Ch 6)
“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.”
“US and put him on a speaker phone to pitch the bond money-making scheme.”
“Tennessee and put him on speaker phone to pitch the money-making opportunity to the Grists.”
“AT&T Moves Up Its LTE Rollout, Admits To Network Issues Nothing quite works like the threat of the possibility of losing a money-making asset.”
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