English Dictionary

cash cow

名詞

広義

(business) A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows. / (by extension) Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money.

日本語の意味

大量の利益を生む事業・製品・サービス。 / 安定して多額の収益をもたらす源泉となるものや人。

After launching the subscription service, it quickly became the company's cash cow, funding new research and expansion.

定額制サービスを開始してから、それはすぐに会社の主要な収益源となり、継続的に高い純フリーキャッシュフローを生み出して新しい研究や事業拡大に資金を供給した。

意味（1）

(business) A product, service, or enterprise that generates ongoing, high net free cash flows.

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.

意味（2）

(by extension) Someone or something which is a dependable source of appreciable amounts of money.

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.

cash cows （ plural ）