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cash cow

noun as in dependable source of steady income

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Hollywood comedies were a cash cow for years, but they’ve run up against a number of hurdles.

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A decentralized, low-cost, flexible cottage industry will likely be transformed into a centralized, high-cost, inflexible cash cow for the merchants of death.

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“It is also a cash cow and it has an identity for a network, which is truly important.”

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The biggest cash cow among foreign students has been in taught post-graduate degrees.

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"Welsh government is discouraging the whole industry," he claimed, accusing ministers of seeing it as a "cash cow to be milked".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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