print money
Create legal tender
To print money is literally to produce currency, but the phrase usually appears figuratively.
A business that prints money generates profits so easily it seems effortless: That franchise is a license to print money.
When governments print money—creating currency beyond what the economy supports—inflation typically follows.
The phrase often carries a note of envy or criticism about wealth that seems unearned.
- mintingProducing official currency
- dollar billsPaper legal tender
- legal tenderOfficially recognized payment medium
- banknotesPaper currency notes
- currencyMedium of exchange
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