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)