print money en · VERB
Meanings
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(informal, intransitive) To 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:
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see print, money.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| printing money | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| prints money | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| printed money | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| printed money | Tense=Past | lexicographic |