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cash cow:

Definitions:

  1. a project that generates a continuous flow of money

Examples:

  1. at the back there . Grammar makes for good headlines , unlikely best-sellers and ELT cash cows because deep down and for all sorts of reasons we wish it would do a
  2. All of the telcos in Europe woke up in a sweat , realising that their cash cows were shrinking . Any fixed minute growth was mainly down to Internet dialup , but
  3. your character for the same price . Overall the whole operation seems like a cynical cash cow . Posted by : kadayi at April 5 , 2006 0 2 : 0 9
  4. of Stewart better than most . Stewart saw Morton as both his plaything and his cash cow . When the mood took him , he would march into the dressing room with
  5. of frenzy . Cosy neighbourhood snugs and smoky lounges have turned into leather-couched , organically-meated cash cows with super-inflated prices . The Barnsbury is one of these places which makes the blood

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