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• n  the act of making money (and accumulating wealth)
• s  producing a sizeable profit
• s  profit oriented
  a moneymaking business

• The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one.
• After the reforms of 1991, moneymaking became respectable again, and the old business houses acquired the esteem that had eluded them.
• It made a kind of amoral sense for the agency to turn to the Mob: when the Cuban leader took power, he closed down the Mafia's big moneymaking operations in Havana; Roselli had .

• lucrative
• remunerative
• mercantile
• mercenary

News & Articles

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• 'Kinky Boots': Cash kicking in
  The musical's producers are only beginning to cash in on the moneymaking potential of their hit.
  June 10, 2013 - MSN

Quotes

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• Charles Schumer in International Herald Tribune
  What the company has called a glitch, Schumer said was "more about moneymaking than malfunction."
• Jamie Carragher in International Herald Tribune
  For richer or poorer, we'd sold Liverpool to two ruthless businessmen who saw us as a moneymaking opportunity,Carragher writes in "Carra: My Autobiography," published by Bantam Press. "They didn't buy Liverpool as an act of charity;...
• Pervez Musharraf in The Age
  Musharraf told The Washington Post on Tuesday: "You must understand the environment in Pakistan. This has become a moneymaking concern. A lot of people say if you want to go abroad and get a visa for Canada or citizenship and be a millionaire, get...