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Definition of Gravy train
1. Noun. Income obtained with a minimum of effort.
Definition of Gravy train
1. Noun. (idiomatic) An occupation or any lucrative endeavor that generates considerable income whilst requiring little effort and carrying little risk. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic politics) A gorging on luxuries, since someone else foots the bill. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravy Train
Literary usage of Gravy train
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options by David G. Victor (2004)
"... dreamed up by scheming scientists who want to usurp government control of the
economy and lubricate a gravy train of government research funding. ..."
2. Doe's Fixed-price Cleanup Contracts: Why Are Costs Still Out of Control edited by Fred Upton (2001)
"However, we cannot afford a return to the old cost plus gravy train contracting
methods, but we also cannot afford to waste hundreds of millions of dollars ..."
3. Changing Modes: New Knowledge Production and Its Implications for Higher by Andre Kraak (2000)
"... which in the present completely unregulated environment can well be considerable:
the South African media refer here to the 'consultancy gravy train'. ..."
4. The Letters of Marmot Brown: An Anthology of Letters to a Local Newspaper by Malgorzata Dunning Publishing (2005)
"It just seems that from the housing stock which the council had, a large gravy
train will suddenly appear with all the staff earning more and more money and ..."
5. A Stop at Suzanne's: And Lower Flights by Greayer Clover (1919)
"Those who weren't on a "gravy train" of any kind had to drill and stand guard or
clean up, and of all jobs that last wins. If you can imagine a camp of one ..."
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