moneymaker

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Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
23
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈmʌniˌmeɪkɚ/
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/ˈmʌniˌmeɪkɚ/ · /ˈmʌniˌmeɪkə/

Definition of moneymaker

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone or something that earns or makes money; anything lucrative or profitable.
    “With careful management, she hoped to grow her small business into a real moneymaker.”
    ““The media don’t really give young people role models anymore,” says Christina Chinn, 21, of Denver. “Now you get role models like Donald Trump and all of the moneymakers — no one with real ideals.””
    “School lunch as a moneymaker is not possible in most public schools because the federal National School Lunch Program that provides subsidies to feed low-income students specifically prohibits it.”
    “In a sense, The Bleeding Edge is about the privatization of our well-being; our bodies and illnesses are money-makers and, even if we know that our doctors have our best interests in mind, a treatment is some way a transaction between a patient and a glacially huge pharma-medical conglomerate out to make a profit.”
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noun

  1. Someone or something that earns or makes money; anything lucrative or profitable.
    “With careful management, she hoped to grow her small business into a real moneymaker.”
    ““The media don’t really give young people role models anymore,” says Christina Chinn, 21, of Denver. “Now you get role models like Donald Trump and all of the moneymakers — no one with real ideals.””
    “School lunch as a moneymaker is not possible in most public schools because the federal National School Lunch Program that provides subsidies to feed low-income students specifically prohibits it.”
    “In a sense, The Bleeding Edge is about the privatization of our well-being; our bodies and illnesses are money-makers and, even if we know that our doctors have our best interests in mind, a treatment is some way a transaction between a patient and a glacially huge pharma-medical conglomerate out to make a profit.”
  2. (slang, vulgar)(usually a woman's) butt, ass, rear end
    “Shake your moneymaker / You gotta shake your moneymaker / And then?”
  3. (slang, vulgar)A lady’s breast.
  4. (obsolete)One who makes (especially counterfeit) money.

name

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a person who made coins.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English monymaker; equivalent to money + maker.

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