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Definition of Cash cow
1. Noun. A project that generates a continuous flow of money.
Definition of Cash cow
1. Noun. (idiomatic business) A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic by extension) Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money; a moneymaker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cash Cow
Literary usage of Cash cow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Visions for Canadian Business: Strategies for Competing in the Global by Alan M. Rugman, Joseph R. DCruz (1990)
"Resource Industries - Canada's cash cow? Resource industries have been the backbone
of Canada's industrial structure. They have provided the income and jobs ..."
2. Airport Revenue Diversion: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science edited by John McCain (1999)
"Ms. Schiavo, tell me what you meant by cash cow? I come from the country, and we
just get milk, we do not get cash. [Laughter.] Senator FORD. ..."
3. Ring Around the Rosie . . . ! by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1995)
"Because to propose any actual solution kills the “cash cow” that so many of ...
Most of it from those who don't want their “cash cow” cut off, but also, ..."
4. Youth & Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages edited by Hank Resnik (1990)
""Cigarettes are a fantastic cash cow," said industry analyst John C. Maxwell,
Jr., adding that the financial condition of the tobacco companies is also ..."
5. American Economic Policy and National Security by Theodore H. Moran (1993)
"... position for the next round of competition by enabling it to use current
technology as a “cash cow” for the development of the subsequent generation. ..."
6. Seminar on East-West Energy Trade: Proceedings, Vienna, 3rd-4th October 1991 by International Energy Agency, Austria, World Bank (1992)
"... is built and ready to operate, then it becomes a "cash cow" - an abundant
source of cash flow and profit over its 20-30 year life, without requiring any ..."
7. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"The railroad never turned out to be the cash cow Seward's founders had hoped for;
except for a brief time during WWII, the railhead was largely neglected. ..."
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