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printed money

printed money is the simple past and past participle of print money.

Meaning of print money

Verb

print money (third-person singular simple present prints money, present participle printing money, simple past and past participle printed money)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To be extremely profitable.
    • Commercially, rom-coms are rom-bombing. “After a decade of essentially printing money,” Chris Orr put it last year, “the genre abruptly ran out of box-office steam in 2012.”2014 July 9, Megan Garber, “When Harry Met eHarmony”, in The Atlantic
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see print, money.

Questions about printed money

What is printed money the simple past and past participle of?
Printed money is the simple past and past participle of print money.

Words near printed money in the dictionary

  1. printed circuit
  2. printed circuit board
  3. printed circuit boards
  4. printed circuits
  5. printed matter
  6. printed money
  7. printed out
  8. printed press
  9. printed up
  10. printer
  11. printer buffer

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