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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lucre \lu"cre\, n. f. lucre, l. lucrum.
gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill
sense.
1913 webster
the lust of lucre and the dread of death. --pope.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
lucre
n 1: informal terms for money syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce,
lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels,
simoleons, sugar, wampum
2: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of
time including depreciation and other non-cash expenses
syn: net income, net, net profit, profit, profits,
earnings
see also:
boodle bread cabbage clams dinero dough
gelt kale lettuce lolly loot
moolah pelf scratch shekels simoleons
sugar wampum net income net net profit
profit profits earnings
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
107 moby thesaurus words for "lucre":
affluence, and pence, assets, bottomless purse, bulging purse,
capital gains, cash, circulating medium, cleanup, clear profit,
coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, currency, dividends, dollars,
dough, earnings, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses,
emergency money, filthy lucre, fortune, fractional currency, gain,
gains, get, gettings, gleanings, gold, greenbacks, gross,
gross profit, handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency,
high income, high tax bracket, hoard, income, independence,
interest, jack, kale, killing, legal tender, lettuce, loot,
luxuriousness, makings, mammon, managed currency, material wealth,
mazuma, medium of exchange, mintage, money, money to burn,
moneybags, neat profit, necessity money, net, net profit, opulence,
opulency, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite,
pickings, possessions, postage currency, postal currency, pounds,
proceeds, profit, profits, property, prosperity, prosperousness,
rake-off, receipts, return, returns, riches, richness, scrip,
shillings, silver, six-figure income, soft currency, specie,
sterling, store, substance, take, take-in, the almighty dollar,
the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasure, upper bracket, wealth,
wealthiness, winnings
- [4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
lucre
from the lat. lucrum, "gain." 1 tim. 3:3, "not given to filthy
lucre." some mss. have not the word so rendered, and the
expression has been omitted in the revised version.
- [5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
lucre. gain, profit. cl. des lois rom. h.t.
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...3, "not given to filthy lucre." Some MSS. have not the word so rendered, and the.....lucre n 1: informal terms for money [syn: shekels, gelt, dough, bread, dinero, loot, pelf.....The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary..
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