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丸儲け丸もうけまる儲け
まるもうけ
1. [n,vs,vt,vi]
▶ clear profit
▶ great profit (without any investment)

Conjugations


History:
8. A 2022-07-05 21:21:41  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
7. A* 2022-07-05 18:36:32  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Refs are conflicted about transitivity. I guess it can be both.

[vi]: shinmeikai, meikyo
[vt]: oukoku

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
| 丸儲け   | 50,036 | 75.9% |
| 丸もうけ  |  4,134 |  6.3% |
| まる儲け  |  3,242 |  4.9% |
| まるもうけ |  8,486 | 12.9% |

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
|  丸儲けし  | 499 |
| を丸儲けし  |  97 |
|  丸儲けする | 351 |
| を丸儲けする |  20 |
  Diff:
@@ -18,0 +19,2 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
6. A 2018-03-28 04:52:45  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I think they're two different things, but let's close it.
5. A* 2018-03-24 07:11:40  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
My bad, I wasn't aware that "clear profit" meant "a profit 
after all expenses have been paid", I just assumed it meant 
"obvious profit". Maybe they don't need to be split into 
two senses?
  Diff:
@@ -20,4 +19,0 @@
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<pos>&vs;</pos>
4. A* 2018-03-17 00:35:30  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
まる儲け	3242 (in GG5 example)
GG5: a clear 「gain [profit]. ~する make [realize, get] a clear 「gain [profit]《of 100,000 yen》.
中辞典: 《make》 a clear profit ¶彼は 30 万円丸もうけした. He made a clean profit of 300,000 yen.
ルミナス: (まるまるの利益) clear profit [C]; (元手や費用なしで得るもうけ) profit 「gained [made] without funds and charges
Daijr: 元手がかからず、収入が全部もうけであること。
  Comments:
From the JEs I'd say it now commonly means making a good profit, although originally it meant there was no initial investment.
  Diff:
@@ -9,0 +10,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>まる儲け</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -16 +19,6 @@
-<gloss>great profit (which doesn't require any investment)</gloss>
+<gloss>clear profit</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
+<gloss>great profit (without any investment)</gloss>
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