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money-making

money-making noun: the acquisition of money.

Noun

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

  1. The acquisition of money.
    • obstinacy in money-making1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity
    • 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.”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...

Adjective

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.

money-making meaning in Malayalam

money-making in Malayalam

profit-making, profitable, remunerative
ആദായകരമായ, ലാഭകരം, ലാഭമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, പ്രതിഫലം നല്കുന്ന, പണം വാരുന്ന, വിജയകരമായ

Forms of money-making

pluralmoney-makings
alternative USmoneymaking

Questions about money-making

What does money-making mean?
Money-making means the acquisition of money.
What is money-making in Malayalam?
Money-making in Malayalam is ആദായകരമായ, ലാഭകരം, ലാഭമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന. See Money-making meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is money-making?
Money-making can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of money-making?
The plural of money-making is money-makings.

Words near money-making in the dictionary

  1. money-losers
  2. money-love
  3. Money-Mae
  4. money-maker
  5. money-makers
  6. money-making
  7. money-makings
  8. money-market fund
  9. money-monger
  10. money-mongers
  11. money-ridden

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Adapted from Wiktionary: money-making (page history and authors); money-making (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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