| 单词 | money-maker |
| 释义 | ˈmoney-maker
†1.
a. One who coins money; a minter, moneyer.
c1400Destr. Troy 1590 Marchandes, Monymakers, Mongers of fyche. 1431Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 16 Ego Johannes Esyngwald de Eboraco, monymakerr. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cxxxvi. 163 Two hundred money makers, that forged there the Money for the french kyng.
†b. A maker of counterfeit coin. Obs.
c1440in Hearne R. Glouc. (1724) 587 Another [statute] he made a none ryghte That monye makers shuld lesse hure syghte. 14..Agst. Friars in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 250 Mony-makers I trow thei be, regis proditores. a1734J. Comer in Rhode Island Hist. Soc. Coll. (1893) VIII. 65 This day came up ye case of ye money makers to trial. 1777in New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1863) VII. 93 To pay Col. Sam'l Folson nineteen pounds eleven shillings for..apprehending Money makers. 1778in Ibid. 149 Jno Mac Glauglin, a money maker.
2. a. One who gains and accumulates money; one who is skilled in, or intent on, getting money.
1864G. Meredith Sandra Belloni i, The fact of his being a money-maker was redeemed in their sight by his devotion to music. 1899R. Wallace G. Buchanan ii. 41 He was no money-maker.
b. A thing which yields pecuniary profit.
1899Ade Doc' Horne 22, I expect to have an interest in the Neapolitan Dental Parlors, where I'm working now. It's a sure money-maker. 1901Munsey's Mag. XXV. 748/2 Some wells have been great money-makers for their owners. 1940E. Fergusson Our Southwest xix. 349 He has instead snapped up his dances as money-makers.
So ˈmoney-making vbl. n., acquisition of wealth; ppl. a., occupied in, or intent on, acquiring wealth; also (of things), yielding money, lucrative.
1739Cibber Apol. (1740) 58 These Shares of the Patentees were promiscuously sold out to Mony-making Persons, call'd Adventurers. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xi. viii. V. 187 The Jews were the first; their strange obstinacy in money-making made them his perpetual victims. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. iii. 171 A mercantile and money-making spirit. 1887Jessopp Arcady ii. 63 Farming never has been a money-making pursuit. |
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