make money

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Verb[edit]

make money (third-person singular simple present makes money, present participle making money, simple past and past participle made money)

  1. To make a profit from a particular activity.
    • 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
      To close a railway simply because it is not making money, he said, "might be the most expensive thing the Government could do."

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