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单词 to make penny of
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to make penny of
a. to make penny of, to turn into money, to sell (obsolete); to make a (good, etc.) penny of, by, from, to make money out of, to profit by (now rare).
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)]
to sell awayc1230
to set to (for, on) sale, a-salec1275
sella1330
to make sale (of)c1430
market1455
to make penny of1464
vent1478
to put away1574
dispatch1592
money1598
vent1602
to put off1631
vend1651
hawk1713
realize1720
mackle1724
neat1747
to sell over1837
unload1884
flog1919
move1938
shift1976
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
1464 15th Rep. Hist. MSS App. viii. 38 [The king shall immediately] presoun thaire personis mak penny of thaire gudis [etc.].
1512 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 76* To mak penny of þair landis and gudis.
1641 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1950) II. 292 That they sall put all actis and decreitis to dew executioun..mak pennie of the soumes of money thairin conteanit to the pairties obteanaris of the samen.
1726 G. Berkeley Let. 1 Dec. in Wks. (1871) IV. 139 I gave him old clothes, which he made a penny of.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. viii. 92 Warrant master Harrel's made a good penny of you.
1804 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry II. i. vi. 40 The want of sight rendered him incapable of conveyancing, and all he could do was to give council, or argue a cause by which he made a penny.
1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds II. xxxvii. 140 Lord George had not, in truth, made a penny by them, and they were good hunters, worth the money.
1996 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 28 Nov. b1 Keener makes a good penny from the stink in his pig manure. He ferments the manure, burns the gas to make electricity, and sells it.
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