See cash cow in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for cash cow meaning in English (7.6kB)
{
"etymology_text": "An allusion to the dairy cow, which once acquired may be milked on an ongoing basis.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cash cows",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cash cow (plural cash cows)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Business",
"orig": "en:Business",
"parents": [
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "70 30",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1980, D. J. Hall, M. A. Saias, “Strategy Follows Structure!”, in Strategic Management Journal, volume 1, number 2, page 181",
"text": "The managers of a cash cow are primarily responsible for the generation of cash, and they should in principle be willing to give cash away to those other businesses in the portfolio which need it most.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows."
],
"id": "en-cash_cow-en-noun-303erGgi",
"links": [
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"product",
"product"
],
[
"service",
"service"
],
[
"enterprise",
"enterprise"
],
[
"free cash flow",
"free cash flow"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(business) A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows."
],
"topics": [
"business"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yáoqiánshù",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "摇钱树"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "féiròu",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "肥肉"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "féiyáng",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "肥羊"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "pengemaskine"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "malkeko"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "melkkoe"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "lypsylehmä"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "rahasampo"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vache à lait"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Goldesel"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mucca da mungere"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "melkeku"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "mjølkeku"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mjølkeku"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dojna krowa"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "żyła złota"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dojnaja koróva",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дойная коро́ва"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mina"
},
{
"_dis1": "93 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "kassako"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004 May 11, Dan Milmo, “Press tycoon Lord Black used company as ‘cash cow’, says $1.25bn lawsuit”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2008-10-30",
"text": "Hollinger International, the owner of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, claimed in the 175-page filing that its former chief executive had treated the company as his \"cash cow\".",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004 October 5, “Britney's new digs”, in The Age (Australia), retrieved 2008-10-30",
"text": "Meanwhile, \"Mr Spears is keen on protecting his cash cow, um, wife. Brit's bodyguards have been teaching Kev how to shoot a handgun,\" the New York Post says.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 January 30, Kellen Browning, “They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Many of the League Championship Series’ 10 teams are backed by billionaires who also own traditional U.S. sports teams. But the sport has not yet become a cash cow. To get in on League of Legends, teams had to pay Riot $10 million to $13 million.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money."
],
"id": "en-cash_cow-en-noun-Mu-knsHZ",
"links": [
[
"dependable",
"dependable"
],
[
"source",
"source"
],
[
"appreciable",
"appreciable"
],
[
"money",
"money"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "moneymaker"
},
{
"word": "golden goose"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "melkkoe"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"word": "lypsylehmä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"word": "rahasampo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vache à lait"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Melkkuh"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Milchkuh"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dojna krowa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 99",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "żyła złota"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-cash cow.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/En-au-cash_cow.ogg/En-au-cash_cow.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/En-au-cash_cow.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "cash cow"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with audio links"
],
"etymology_text": "An allusion to the dairy cow, which once acquired may be milked on an ongoing basis.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cash cows",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cash cow (plural cash cows)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Business"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1980, D. J. Hall, M. A. Saias, “Strategy Follows Structure!”, in Strategic Management Journal, volume 1, number 2, page 181",
"text": "The managers of a cash cow are primarily responsible for the generation of cash, and they should in principle be willing to give cash away to those other businesses in the portfolio which need it most.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows."
],
"links": [
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"product",
"product"
],
[
"service",
"service"
],
[
"enterprise",
"enterprise"
],
[
"free cash flow",
"free cash flow"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(business) A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows."
],
"topics": [
"business"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004 May 11, Dan Milmo, “Press tycoon Lord Black used company as ‘cash cow’, says $1.25bn lawsuit”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2008-10-30",
"text": "Hollinger International, the owner of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, claimed in the 175-page filing that its former chief executive had treated the company as his \"cash cow\".",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004 October 5, “Britney's new digs”, in The Age (Australia), retrieved 2008-10-30",
"text": "Meanwhile, \"Mr Spears is keen on protecting his cash cow, um, wife. Brit's bodyguards have been teaching Kev how to shoot a handgun,\" the New York Post says.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 January 30, Kellen Browning, “They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Many of the League Championship Series’ 10 teams are backed by billionaires who also own traditional U.S. sports teams. But the sport has not yet become a cash cow. To get in on League of Legends, teams had to pay Riot $10 million to $13 million.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money."
],
"links": [
[
"dependable",
"dependable"
],
[
"source",
"source"
],
[
"appreciable",
"appreciable"
],
[
"money",
"money"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "moneymaker"
},
{
"word": "golden goose"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-cash cow.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/En-au-cash_cow.ogg/En-au-cash_cow.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/En-au-cash_cow.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yáoqiánshù",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "摇钱树"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "féiròu",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "肥肉"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "féiyáng",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "肥羊"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "pengemaskine"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "malkeko"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "melkkoe"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "lypsylehmä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "rahasampo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vache à lait"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Goldesel"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mucca da mungere"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "melkeku"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "mjølkeku"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mjølkeku"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dojna krowa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "żyła złota"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dojnaja koróva",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дойная коро́ва"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mina"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something that generates free cash flow",
"word": "kassako"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "melkkoe"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"word": "lypsylehmä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"word": "rahasampo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vache à lait"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Melkkuh"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Milchkuh"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dojna krowa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "żyła złota"
}
],
"word": "cash cow"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.