money-spinning

chiefly British
as in lucrative
yielding a profit turning his stately ancestral home into a tourist attraction proved to be a money-spinning venture for the earl

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Adjective
  • Sweet Martha’s, which operates three stands at the fair, is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This designation gives them access to federal benefits intended for rural communities, such as lower thresholds for qualifying for the lucrative 340B Drug Pricing Program and expanded graduate medical education slots.
    Ge Bai, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Kurt Hutson, owner of Rise Academy located north of Dallas in Allen, said 3- and 4-year-old students are the most profitable in terms of the revenue source from their tuition.
    Lina Ruiz September 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Adopt zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and multiparty computation (MPC) to validate identity attributes without exposing the raw data, making synthetic identity theft less profitable.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Money-spinning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/money-spinning. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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