单词 | money-making |
释义 | money-makingn.ΚΠ 1452 in C. L. Kingsford Eng. Hist. Lit. 15th Cent. (1913) 368 (MED) He was taken at Derby with money making and ladde to London. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Liiv Ther was brybes walking, money makynge, makynge of handes. 2. The accumulation or earning of money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [noun] winninga1300 purchasec1325 lucrec1380 chevisancea1400 framing1440 lucring1574 lucrifaction1606 lucration1658 money-making1785 realization1799 money getting1836 capital formation1889 1785 R. Hunter Jrnl. 16 Nov. in Quebec to Carolina (1943) (modernized text) 194 It was quite a disinterested part that [he] was acting with regard to money-making. 1818 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1949) IX. 827 Aye! Aye! but where is the man of genius among us? (except for money making). 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 154 In the way of money-making..he is awfully clever. 1913 R. Brooke Let. 17 Dec. (1968) 553 No white in or near Fiji cares twopence for anything except money-making. 1989 V. Singh Jaya Ganga 149 Pandas woke under their palm-leaf umbrellas to another day of money-making. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). money-makingadj. Occupied in, or intent upon, acquiring wealth; financially profitable, lucrative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] making1434 quaestuary1581 lucratory1646 money-making1740 chrematistic1752 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adjective] > profitable winning1435 lucrous1511 beneficial1526 lucrative1526 gainful1561 profitful1568 gainsome1579 profiting1590 requiteful1607 pennisome1631 lucriferous1648 opulent1648 emolumental1664 quick1681 well-metalleda1734 pay-rent1742 profitable1758 emolumentary1775 remunerative1813 economical1815 repaying1820 well-paying1832 benefited1837 paying1841 payable1855 money-making1887 economic1899 bankable1927 megadollar1963 money-spinning1973 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 58 These Shares of the Patentees were promiscuously sold out to Mony-making Persons, call'd Adventurers. 1766 E. Griffith Double Mistake iv. i. 53 A plague on that stupid, money-making brother. 1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 I. 319 Busy, pre-occupied, money-making London offers nothing approaching to it. 1854 H. Strickland Trav. Thoughts 28 A soulless, poetryless, utilitarian, money-making Englishman is bad enough. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady ii. 63 Farming never has been a money-making pursuit. 1972 Publishers Weekly 6 Mar. 2/2 They carried off the biggest money-making hype in sports history. 1994 Ontario Out of Doors Sept. 77/1 (advt.) You even train with and keep the equipment you need to set up a money-making gunsmithing shop of your own. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1452adj.1740 |
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