Synonyms for make money

Grammar : Verb

Spell : muhn-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmʌn i

Top 10 synonyms for make money

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Définition of make money

Origin : mid-13c., "coinage, metal currency," from Old French monoie "money, coin, currency; change" (Modern French monnaie), from Latin moneta "place for coining money, mint; coined money, money, coinage," from Moneta, a title or surname of the Roman goddess Juno, in or near whose temple money was coined; perhaps from monere "advise, warn" (see monitor (n.)), with the sense of "admonishing goddess," which is sensible, but the etymology is difficult. Extended early 19c. to include paper money.
It had been justly stated by a British writer that the power to make a small piece of paper, not worth one cent, by the inscribing of a few names, to be worth a thousand dollars, was a power too high to be entrusted to the hands of mortal man. [John C. Calhoun, speech, U.S. Senate, Dec. 29, 1841]I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is the symbol. [Henry Ford]
To make money "earn pay" is first attested mid-15c. Highwayman's threat your money or your life first attested 1841. Phrase in the money (1902) originally meant "one who finishes among the prize-winners" (in a horse race, etc.). The challenge to put (one's) money where (one's) mouth is is first recorded 1942, American English. money-grub "one who is sordidly intent on amassing money" is from 1768. The image of money burning a hole in someone's pocket is attested from 1520s.

As in pay : verb profit, yield
As in profit : verb gain; get or give an advantage
As in prosper : verb be fortunate; succeed
As in counterfeit : verb make deceitful imitation

Example sentences :

Only, he's got one terrible fault: he doesn't know how to make money.
Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance

He could make money by solving the secret for a troubled soul.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

All the people who had tried to make money and had not been able to do it, said, There you were!
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

He was old; he had no money and no way to make money; he could find nothing to do.
Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington

If this means that the poet is not to make money his object, it means well: no man should.
Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

I desire to make money for reasons that are not entirely selfish, as you know.
Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr

It does not make money an idol, but regards it as a useful agent.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

You can see for yourself, then, whether it is anything by means of which you can make money.
Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

I told him he'd make money if he could get somebody to take the bet.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

A mint is where they make money and I certainly do not make time.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

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