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Definition of Lucrative
1. Adjective. Producing a sizeable profit. "A remunerative business"
Similar to: Profitable
Derivative terms: Moneymaking, Remunerate
Definition of Lucrative
1. a. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
Definition of Lucrative
1. Adjective. producing a surplus; profitable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lucrative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucrative
Literary usage of Lucrative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray by Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans (1851)
"Lord Grenville, who had received a number of lucrative appointments, is represented
as suggesting that the Chancellorship might with propriety be added to ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"Jews of Palestine,56 seemed to justify the lucrative modes of oppression which
were invented by the bishops and eunuchs of the court oí ..."
3. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly (1885)
"exceed ninety dollars per annum, shall not be deemed lucrative: And provided,
also, That counties containing less than one thousand polls may confer the ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"From this time ecclesiastical dignities and lucrative emoluments fell rapidly to
his share. He was made successively prebend of Westminster 1607, ..."
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