moneymaking
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Definition
Adjective:
- Profit-oriented, commercial: Describes an activity, business, or venture that is primarily concerned with or designed to generate financial profit.
- Producing a sizeable profit: Describes something that is successful in yielding a significant financial gain.
Noun:
- The act or process of earning money and accumulating wealth: Refers to the activity or practice of generating income.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The company shifted its focus to more moneymaking ventures.
- Her blog started as a hobby but eventually became a moneymaking enterprise.
- Noun:
- His sole interest was in moneymaking, with little regard for other pursuits.
- The seminar offered strategies for effective moneymaking.
Advanced Usage
- Used to emphasize the primary or sometimes exclusive goal of generating profit, which can carry a neutral, positive, or slightly negative connotation depending on context.
- The film was a critical failure but a moneymaking success for the studio. (Neutral/Positive)
- He was accused of having purely moneymaking motives. (Slightly negative)
Variants and Related Words
- Money-maker (noun): A person or thing that generates a lot of money.
- The new product line became the company's biggest money-maker.
- Profit-making (adjective): Similar in meaning, often used interchangeably in business contexts.
Synonyms
- Adjective: Profitable, lucrative, remunerative, commercial, gainful.
- Noun: Profit-seeking, wealth accumulation.
Antonyms
- Adjective: Nonprofit, charitable, unprofitable, loss-making.
- Noun: Philanthropy, charity.
Related Phrases
- A moneymaking scheme: Often implies a plan designed specifically to generate money, which can sometimes sound opportunistic.
- He was always coming up with new moneymaking schemes.
- The business of moneymaking: Refers to the general activity or industry of generating profit.
- He was deeply involved in the business of moneymaking.
Adjective
- profit oriented
- a commercial book
- preached a mercantile and militant patriotism- John Buchan
- a mercenary enterprise
- a moneymaking business
- producing a sizeable profit
- a remunerative business
Noun
- the act of making money (and accumulating wealth)