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Definition: MONEY-MAKING |
MONEY-MAKINGAdjective1. Sussessful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim; as, a money-making man. 2. Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business. Noun1. The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. |
Date "MONEY-MAKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: MONEY-MAKING |
| Specialty definitions using "MONEY-MAKING": Hemp Seed. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 77.27% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.73% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 mang lợi (fruitful, profitable), sự l m tiền sự mang lợi sự đúc tiền, có thể l m lợi. (various references) | ||||||||||
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. | |
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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)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01001110 01000101 01011001 00101101 01001101 01000001 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O N E Y - M A K I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 004E 0045 0059 002D 004D 0041 004B 0049 004E 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)474948395915473545434841 |
| 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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