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Money-making

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Mon´ey-mak`ing
n.1.The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.
Obstinacy in money-making.
- Milman.
a.1.Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business. Opposite of unprofitable.
2.Successful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim; as, a money-making man.
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Whence of all forms of money-making it is most against nature.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Though it was supposed to be proper for them to have an occupation, the crude fact of money-making was still regarded as derogatory, and the law, being a profession, was accounted a more gentlemanly pursuit than business.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
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