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⟳.”

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