What is "moneymaker"

Usage examples of "moneymaker".

He owned a small mall he wanted to get rid of, a long-term moneymaker, and he could arrange that the payment would be mostly under-the-table cash.

My glasses have steamed up a bit, so I can't see Kate Bush's face amongst them, just a glimpse of that chippy, dark-haired Jewish girl, Rebecca whatsername, but it's too late to stop dancing now, because James Brown is asking me to shake my moneymaker, shake my moneymaker, and I have to think for a minute because I'm not sure what my moneymaker is specifically.

A new explosive would be a big moneymaker, closely controlled for as long as possible so there would be only one producer of it.

And the thing he really doesn't want to say is that it would be a good project, and a sure moneymaker, if you weren't.

British auctioneers tended to arrange their catalogues so that the potential moneymakers came up in mid-session, and small studs like Antonia’s got the cold outer edges.

More important: highways pay for themselves, dams return the investment many times, and schools—why, schools are the biggest moneymakers of all"

Oil was but one of his many multinational moneymakers but by all accounts the most lucrative.

Unlike in Latin America, where graft and wholesale corruption were among the main moneymakers of old-line family businesses and governments alike.

On the legal side, there's more than one jurisdiction, and for some of the European countrieswell, banking is a big moneymaker, and no government ever turns its back on tax revenue.