make money
idiom
: to earn money : to make a profit
The club made money by selling advertisements in the newsletter.
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Five Sudanese citizens — a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance volunteer and two street boys who make money collecting plastic bottles — come together to share their memories, hopes and dreams in Khartoum, a caleidoscopic documentary about the civil war that started in the country in 2023.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
Desperate to make money to support my baby, I got involved in drug sales and theft.
—Joanna Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
That may be evidence that profitable firms make money in part by contaminating the environment rather than paying for pollution prevention or cleanup.
—Jennifer Brodmann, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
Understanding how gas utilities make money helps explain why.
—NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
Desperate to make money to support my baby, I got involved in drug sales and theft.
—Joanna Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
That may be evidence that profitable firms make money in part by contaminating the environment rather than paying for pollution prevention or cleanup.
—Jennifer Brodmann, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
Understanding how gas utilities make money helps explain why.
—NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Make money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20money. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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