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MONEY-MAKING

Definition: MONEY-MAKING

MONEY-MAKING

Adjective

1. Sussessful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim; as, a money-making man.

2. Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business.

Noun

1. The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MONEY-MAKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references)


Synonyms within Context: MONEY-MAKING

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Acquisition

Gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf; loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument; (remuneration).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MONEY-MAKING

Specialty definitions using "MONEY-MAKING": Hemp Seed. (references)

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Modern Usage: MONEY-MAKING

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Anyone who can't make money off of Sports Night should get out of the money-making business. (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: MONEY-MAKING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Merger Mania: Arbitrage: Wall Street's Best Kept Money-Making Secret (reference)

  • Jump Start Your Book Sales: A Money-Making Guide for Authors, Independent Publishers and Small Presses (reference)

  • The Money-Making Guide to Bonds: Straightforward Strategies for Picking the Right Bonds and Bond Funds (reference)

  • Shameless Marketing for Brazen Hussies: 307 Awesome Money-Making Stategies for Savvy Entrepreneurs (reference)

  • Electrical Contractor: Start and Run a Money-Making Business (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MONEY-MAKING

"MONEY-MAKING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 77.27% of the time. "MONEY-MAKING" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)77.27%1785,106
Noun (singular)22.73%5157,705
                    Total100.00%22N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MONEY-MAKING

Language Translations for "MONEY-MAKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

赚' (lucrative, moneymaking). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

貨殖 , 金儲け , 金もうけ , 営利 (commercialized), 一儲 , 利殖 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひともうけ (making money), かしょく (bright light, eating cooked food, living on fruit, one's trade or profession, overeating, temporary planting), かねもうけ, りしょく (leaving or losing a job), えいり (commercialized, illustrated, pictorial, sharpness). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

돈벌이 (moneymaking). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oney-makingmay

   

Vietnamese 

  

mang lợi (fruitful, profitable), sự l m tiền sự mang lợi sự đúc tiền, có thể l m lợi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MONEY-MAKING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: moneymaking.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-k-m-m-n-n-o-y"

-2 letters: monkeying.

-3 letters: moneyman, nonimage.

-4 letters: agnomen, kayoing, meaning, moaning, nongame, okaying, omening, yanking, yeaning.

-5 letters: ammine, ammino, amnion, anomie, anonym, anyone, enigma, eonian, gamine, gammon, immane, keying, kinema, making, mangey, maying, mignon, minyan, monkey, naming, nomina, nonage, nongay, yeoman, yoking.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-k-m-m-n-n-o-y"
 

+1 letter: moneymakings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MONEY-MAKING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 4E 45 59 2D 4D 41 4B 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01001110 01000101 01011001 00101101 01001101 01000001 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#78 &#69 &#89 &#45 &#77 &#65 &#75 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 004E 0045 0059 002D 004D 0041 004B 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

474948395915473545434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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