say it: MUHN-ee-may-king
moneymaking is an adjective and noun meaning "producing a sizeable profit". It carries 3 recorded senses.
profit oriented
“a commercial book”
“preached a mercantile and militant patriotism”
“a mercenary enterprise”
“a moneymaking business”
the act of making money (and accumulating wealth)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moneymaking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.