money-making
See also: moneymaking
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- moneymaking (especially U.S.)
Noun edit
money-making (countable and uncountable, plural money-makings)
- The acquisition of money.
- 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity[1]:
- obstinacy in money-making
- 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Second Kalandar’s Tale. [Night 12.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 115:
- He rejoined, “Thy calling is of no account in our city, where not a soul understandeth science or even writing or aught save money-making.”
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 189:
- Love, in fact, having in this modern world-movement been denied, and its natural manifestations affected with a sense of guilt and of sin, has really languished and ceased to play its natural part in life; and a vast number of people - both men and women, finding themselves barred or derailed from the main object of existence, have turned their energies to 'business' or 'money-making' or 'social advancement' or something equally futile, as the only poor substitute and pis aller open to them.
- 2023 October 18, “Network News: TfL creates property company to raise funds”, in RAIL, number 994, page 17:
- Controversy has surrounded some of the schemes, which local authorities and commuters have seen as putting money-making before travel.
Adjective edit
money-making
- Profitable.
- a moneymaking idea
- He's always working on one money-making project or another.
- For profit.
- We're a moneymaking enterprise, not a charity.