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单词 to make money
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to make money
(a) to make money: to acquire or earn money. Also: to get money by the sale of; to make a profit (from, out of).to be made of money: see make v.1 5c.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make profit by
to make money1457
to make a (good, etc.) penny of, by, from1464
to make chevisance of1535
to make a (also one's) hand(s)1538
to make a good thing of (also out of)1800
1457 W. Worcester in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 172 He..resseyvyth but chaffre and waare for hys cornys and wollys, &c. and then most abyde a long day to make money.
c1470 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 108 (MED) I wull make money off my oxyn to kepe with my promys.
1546 O. Johnson Let. 2 July in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 175 Besids the monney that I shal make of the said wares.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 45 Then may the husband afterwardes sell his wife for a slave, and make money of her for the dowrie he gaue her.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) To make money of, vendre.
1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xiii. 170 I have nothing to give you, for I have no mony, being now going to Market with this Corn to make money of it.
a1730 Gideon Guthrie (1900) 10 Alexander suggested to his father that if he would allow him he could make money by his skill in musick.
1798 M. Wollstonecraft Wrongs of Woman I. v. 126 He had been a keeper at a house of the same description, and conceived that he could make money much more readily in his old occupation.
1828 W. M'Dowall Poems 25 When Buonaparte in splendour shone, 'Twas then I made the money.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. v. ii. 225 He took the liberty of asking if Mr Tom had ever thought of making money by trading a bit on his own account.
1901 Spectator 20 July 82/1 The War Office ought not to make money out of, any more than they should subsidise, the rifle clubs.
1975 Maclean's Feb. 14/1 Some agents make money from ‘finder's fees’.
1995 Atlantic Monthly June 6/2 He is a poet, a memoirist, and a publisher of books that not only receive critical acclaim but also make money.
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