Antonyms for make money


Grammar : Verb
Spell : muhn-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmʌn i


Definition 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

Synonyms for make money

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