profit, gain; money
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Lucre Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutGain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
lucre
\lu"cre\ (?), n. [f. lucre, l. lucrum.] gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. the lust of lucre and the dread of death.
lucre
n
1. informal terms for money [syn: shekels, gelt, dough, bread, dinero, loot, pelf, moolah, cabbage, kale]
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]
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.
cruel ulcer
Money or profits.
EG:Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.(E.DAHLBERG)
EG:There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.(E.DAHLBERG)
EG:Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.(E.DAHLBERG)
EG:There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.(E.DAHLBERG)
Noun
1. informal terms for money
(synonym) boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
(hypernym) money
2. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
(synonym) net income, net, net profit, profit, profits, earnings
(hypernym) income
(hyponym) earning per share
(part-meronym) share, portion, part, percentage
Lucre Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Lucre, from the Lat. lucrum, meaning gain in terms of money or wealth within the nation.
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Lucre Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
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.
