moneymaking

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the activity of earning money or making a profit

   He cared more about moneymaking than about the craft itself.

2. 2
   adj

   designed or likely to produce a profit

   The publisher turned the weekly column into a successful moneymaking venture.

A compound of money + making, recorded in English since the sixteenth century. It functions both as a noun for the pursuit of profit and as an adjective for an activity that earns money.

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