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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cash cow
noun
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▪ The $8 billion video rental industry is the biggest cash cow ever developed in entertainment.
Wiktionary
cash cow

n. 1 (context idiomatic business English) A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows. 2 (context idiomatic by extension English) Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money; a moneymaker.

WordNet
cash cow

n. a project that generates a continuous flow of money [syn: moneymaker, money-spinner]

Wikipedia
Cash cow

Cash cow is business jargon for a business venture that generates a steady return of profits that far exceed the outlay of cash required to acquire or start it. Many businesses attempt to create or acquire such ventures, since they can be used to boost a company's overall income and to support less profitable endeavors.

Cash cow (disambiguation)

Cash cow is business jargon for a commodity that creates a large proportion or the majority of profits for a person or business.

Cash cow may also refer to:

  • "Cash Cow", a song by We Are Scientists from their album With Love and Squalor
  • "Cash Cow", a song by Steve Taylor on the album Squint
  • Cash Cow (game), a game on the Webkinz World website
  • Cashcows, a 2005 series on BBC Radio 4

Usage examples of "cash cow".

President, arms sales to that area are a major cash cow for the Sovs.

She didn't have it in her to start all over again if Wildest Dream stopped being a cash cow.

Then LottoPick would become a cash cow for ATI, conservatively projected to earn $1 billion annually.

Rejuvenation pharmacology had been their main cash cow, and the reason they had so much influence in the Conselline Sept.

Space operations was the corporation's largest division, thanks to the Clipperships, a profitable cash cow that various reorganization plans sought to carve up into smaller sections and remove from Rashid's control.