Mon·ey-mak·ing, n. The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.
    Obstinacy in money-making.   --Milman.
 Mon·ey-mak·ing, a.
 1. Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business.  Opposite of unprofitable.
 2. Successful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim; as, a money-making man.
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 moneymaking
      adj 1: producing a good profit; "a remunerative business" [syn: lucrative,
              remunerative]
      2: profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile
         and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary
         enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" [syn: mercantile,
         mercenary, moneymaking(a)]
      n : the act of making money (and accumulating wealth)