🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

赚钱机器

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhuànqián jīqì

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Profit-maker/ˈprɒf.ɪtˌmeɪ.kər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这条产品线一直是公司主要的赚钱机器。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person, product, business, or investment that generates a significant financial profit.

    "The new smartphone line quickly became the company's leading profit-maker."
  2. 2

    An activity or enterprise undertaken specifically to secure monetary return.

    "They turned their seasonal side hustle into a consistent profit-maker."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'profit' (originating from Latin 'profectus', meaning progress or advance, via Old French) combined with the agent noun 'maker' (from Old English 'macian'). The compound noun emerged in modern English commercial lexicon to describe ventures, products, or individuals that reliably generate financial gains.

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