money maker

Profitable venture source

A money maker is something or someone that generates profit or income.

A business might call its best-selling product the real money maker.

The term also refers informally to a person's buttocks, especially when dancing: Shake your money maker.

Someone described as a money maker earns well or has a talent for generating wealth.

profitable

cash cow

Dependable income source

breadwinner · earner · profit center · jackpot · bonanza · windfall · gravy train · meal ticket · nest egg · side hustle

wealthy-person

tycoon

Dominant industrial leader

millionaire · entrepreneur · industrialist · financier · investor · capitalist · oligarch · plutocrat · moneybags · fat cat

Categories
Opposites
financial outcome

money makermoney pit

Endlessly expensive undertaking

loss · expense · loss leader · write-off · debt

asset vs. liability

money makerliability

Legal or financial obligation

burden · albatross · debt · millstone · white elephant

productivity/utility

money makerresource drain

time sink · leech · parasite · freeloader · dead weight

Family

money, maker, moneys, monies, moneyed, make, makes, made, making

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG