mon·ey·mak·ing

(mŭn′ē-mā′kĭng)

Acquisition of money or other wealth.

adj.

1. Engaged or successful in acquiring wealth.

2. Actually or potentially profitable: a moneymaking business proposition.

mon′ey·mak′er n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	moneymaking - the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) acquisition - the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another"
Adj.	1.	moneymaking - producing a sizeable profit; "a remunerative business" lucrative, remunerative profitable - yielding material gain or profit; "profitable speculation on the stock market"
	2.	moneymaking - profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" mercantile, mercenary commercial - connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises; "commercial trucker"; "commercial TV"; "commercial diamonds"

moneymaking

adjective

Affording profit:

advantageous, fat, lucrative, profitable, remunerative, rewarding.

Translations

avantageux intéressant

moneymaking

[ˈmʌnɪˌmeɪkɪŋ] adj → che rende (bene or molto), lucrativo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

At present, I said, the students of philosophy are quite young; beginning when they are hardly past childhood, they devote only the time saved from moneymaking and housekeeping to such pursuits; and even those of them who are reputed to have most of the philosophic spirit, when they come within sight of the great difficulty of the subject, I mean dialectic, take themselves off.

View in context

He claimed there was a huge moneymaking in the BNP's nomination process.

Election manifesto of AL after Dec 16

Other council.lors This is not a moneymaking exercise...this is about reducing casualties across our city.

Speed cameras could be placed across city; MOVE WILL SAVE LIVES AFTER NUMBER OF DEATHS ON CITY ROADS RISES

The loot is laundered and used for other moneymaking rackets.

Ship hijacker pirates take PS250m haul

BUDDING entrepreneurs will pitch their moneymaking ideas to a Dragons' Den-style panel of experts in the final of a summerlong scheme.

Children pitch business ideas

As the corruption in the Karzai government has grown more blatant, a popular hypothesis has emerged to explain it: that officials in Karzai's government orchestrated the fraud in order to preserve their hold on the moneymaking apparatus that the government has become, "It's a moneymaking machine." one senior American official told me.

Kabul on the take

The money spent on that would be better put to use funding the Acorns Children's Hospice, air ambulance, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research etc than wasting millions to have something that is a moneymaking racket mainly for London and for a few British contestants, who may win a medal and then be forgotten about.

Sick of 2012 Olympics; YourSay

(ITV1, 8pm) It may be close to a decade since the daddy of all quiz shows hit the screens but Chris Tarrant's moneymaking vehicle is still some of the most compelling TV on the box.

quiz show

Internet phone calls and cheap, nearly anonymous wire transfers-money-saving propositions for people in the developing world--are turning into moneymaking tools for a small band of tech-savvy thieves in Latin America.

Easy money

Armpit is doing OK until X-Ray, a former Green Lake camper, comes around with a moneymaking scheme.

Having your say