cash cow

Definitions

Accounting

  • noun a product or subsidiary company that consistently generates good profits but does not provide growth

Economics

  • noun a product which consistently generates good profits and maintains its dominant position in the market, but will not provide growth because the market is only expanding slowly

Idiom

  • something that provides a regular and accruing profit or income long after it was created
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