moneymaker

noun

Definition of moneymakernext
as in money-spinner

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Recent Examples of moneymaker With a staff of just five, that's a robust moneymaker as media is disrupted by a wave of mergers and acquisitions. — ABC News, 29 June 2026 Converting your nonprofit to a moneymaker will do that; so will your leader’s series of smarmy pronouncements about the future. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026 At that time, Bell’s only real moneymaker was Tony Orlando and Dawn, who were already in the process of switching to Elektra. — Chet Flippo, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026 After all, being an online creator — particularly in recent years — has become a moneymaker in its own right. — Lauren Wilson, NBC news, 31 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for moneymaker
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  1. money-spinner
  2. capitalist
  3. plutocrat
  4. money
Noun
  • Their ongoing pre-season tour of America is another money-spinner with games in Nashville and Chicago, as well as New York, but the trip’s schedule has been designed around maximising training time.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Turning a muse into a money-spinner has taken a rethink of New Balance’s approach to addressing disruption and pursuing new markets.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 28 Nov. 2025
Definition of money-spinner
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  • Tulloch could command a high salary at another lab, or raise billions from venture capitalists for a startup of his own, like OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever or Google’s Jeff Dean did.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The cases of Tesla and Solyndra highlight how, by not recognizing its role as a public venture capitalist, the state often ends up socializing risks while privatizing rewards.
    — Mariana Mazzucato, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of capitalist
Noun
  • Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The provenance of an otherwise unknown plutocrat probably does not.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of plutocrat
Noun
  • That pick also comes with significantly more money (close to $3 million in 2026) for a team’s draft bonus pool.
    — Tim Britton, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The money will go toward manufacturing research for the hardware behind its quantum processors.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
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