make a buck

idiom

: to earn money
I am just working hard, trying to make a buck.

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Open seating went away, not because passengers demanded it, but so Southwest could make a buck selling prime spots. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025 Cynical readers might right away be bellowing that this is going to incentivize the AI makers to convince users to increase their thinking times, perhaps just to make a buck. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 Check it out: The Switchback gave Holmes a way to make a buck while prototyping the larger public transit system, and testing it at high speeds. New Atlas, 15 Jan. 2025 Ditto for tedious paralegal tasks, or data entry, or even coding, or anything that any of the rest of us do to make a buck. John Werner, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for make a buck

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“Make a buck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20a%20buck. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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