print money

English

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, informal) To be extremely profitable.
    • 2014 July 9, Megan Garber, “When Harry Met eHarmony”, in The Atlantic‎:
      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.”
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see print,‎ money.
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