money-making
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.29 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
For profit.
Example Sentences
- "obstinacy in money-making"
- "He rejoined, “Thy calling is of no account in our city, where not a soul understandeth science or even writing or aught save money-making.”"
- "Love, in fact, having in this modern world-movement been denied, and its natural manifestations affected with a sense of guilt and of sin, has really languished and ceased to play its natural part in life; and a vast number of people - both men and women, finding themselves barred or derailed from the main object of existence, have turned their energies to 'business' or 'money-making' or 'social advancement' or something equally futile, as the only poor substitute and pis aller open to them."
- "Controversy has surrounded some of the schemes, which local authorities and commuters have seen as putting money-making before travel."
- "a moneymaking idea"
- "He's always working on one money-making project or another."