cash cow
noun
1
: a consistently profitable business, property, or product whose profits are used to finance a company's investments in other areas
2
: one regarded or exploited as a reliable source of money
a singer deemed a cash cow for the record label
Examples of cash cow in a Sentence
The football team was a cash cow for the university.
The movie studio saw the actress as a cash cow.
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Fixing the problem Perhaps the biggest challenge facing Boeing—and by extension its airline customers—at the moment is the production cap imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Boeing’s cash cow 737 Max aircraft.
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Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
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Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
Climate & Environment Sea lions are cash cows in the Bay Area.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for cash cow
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“Cash cow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cash%20cow. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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