Definition

1. 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.

2. 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

1. profit oriented
   • a commercial book
   • preached a mercantile and militant patriotism- John Buchan
   • a mercenary enterprise
   • a moneymaking business
2. producing a sizeable profit
   • a remunerative business

Noun

1. the act of making money (and accumulating wealth)