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单词 money-making
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money-makingn.

Brit. /ˈmʌnɪˌmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməniˌmeɪkɪŋ/
Forms: see money n. and making n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: money n., making n.1
Etymology: < money n. + making n.1 Compare earlier money-maker n.
1. The making of counterfeit coin, counterfeiting. Obsolete.
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.

Brit. /ˈmʌnɪˌmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməniˌmeɪkɪŋ/
Forms: see money n. and making adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: money n., making adj.
Etymology: < money n. + making adj. Compare earlier money-maker n., money-making n.
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).
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