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名詞

money-making (countable and uncountable, plural money-makings)

1. The acquisition of money.
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity‎:

     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.

形容詞

money-making

1. Profitable.

   a moneymaking idea

   He's always working on one money-making project or another.

2. For profit.

   We're a moneymaking enterprise, not a charity.

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アナグラム

• making money