Meaning of money-making | Babel Free

Definitions

The acquisition of money.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level