print money

verb

To be extremely profitable.

Meanings

verbprint money (third-person singular simple present prints money, present participle printing money, simple past and past participle printed money)

present singular third person prints money · participle present printing money · participle past printed money · past printed money

  1. informalintransitiveTo be extremely profitable.

    Commercially, rom-coms are rom-bombing. “After a decade of essentially printing money,” Chris Orr put it last year, “the genre abruptly ran out of box-office steam in 2012.”

    2014 July 9, Megan Garber, “When Harry Met eHarmony”, in The Atlantic
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see print, money.
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