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printing money

printing money is the present participle and gerund 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 printing money

What is printing money the present participle and gerund of?
Printing money is the present participle and gerund of print money.

Words near printing money in the dictionary

  1. printing house
  2. printing houses
  3. printing in
  4. printing ink
  5. printing inks
  6. printing money
  7. printing out
  8. printing paper
  9. printing papers
  10. printing press
  11. printing presses

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