make money

phrase

: to earn money : to make a profit
The club made money by selling advertisements in the newsletter.

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Bubbles pop when liquidity tightens, meaning higher rates or stiffer regulation make money harder to borrow, and private creditors grow less willing to lend at any rate. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026 No, because every single person helped make money for charity that day and was there out of love for my husband and Sabbath. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026 Its goal is to help its patrons make money and to also use proceeds to support an undisclosed number of programs that help veterans. — Josh Taylor, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 At the Meta Connect conference in September, Mark Zuckerberg (the human one) said that the company will eventually make money by charging a small commission for the agent’s transactions. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for make money

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make mincemeat (out) of
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“Make money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20money. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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