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cash cow noun any business or business sector that provides a steady cash flow US, 1974- The scrap-heaps of business are littered with concepts which went–to use the Boston Group matrix–from being question marks to dogs, without the intervening periods of star and cash cow status. — Fiona Czerniawska, Corporate-Speak, p. 224, 1997
- The Scottish secretary, Helen Liddell, last night became the latest member of Tony Blair’s cabinet to warn the prime minister against embracing student top-up fees as a “cash cow” to expand the incomes of Britain’s universities. — Guardian, 4 December 2002
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