cash cow

1. 1.

   a project that generates a continuous flow of money

   Synonymsmoneymakermoney-spinner

   Broaderproject

Questions about cash cow

What does cash cow mean?

cash cow means "a project that generates a continuous flow of money".

What is another word for cash cow?

Close synonyms include moneymaker, money-spinner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cash cow a common word?

cash cow is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.