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Definition of Lucre
1. Noun. Informal terms for money.
Generic synonyms: Money
Derivative terms: Cabbage
2. Noun. The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses).
Generic synonyms: Income
Specialized synonyms: Earning Per Share, Windfall Profit, Cleanup, Killing, Fast Buck, Quick Buck, Filthy Lucre, Gross Profit, Gross Profit Margin, Margin, Markup, Accumulation, Dividend
Terms within: Part, Percentage, Portion, Share
Derivative terms: Net, Profit, Profiteer
Definition of Lucre
1. n. Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
Definition of Lucre
1. Noun. Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in a negative sense. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lucre
1. monetary gain [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucre
Literary usage of Lucre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Josiah Conder (1844)
"Then I saw in my dream, that a little off the road, over-against the silver mine,
stood Demas (gentleman-like) to call passengers to DEMAS AT THE HILL lucre ..."
2. Foreign and Domestic Law: A Concise Treatise on Private International by John Alderson Foote (1904)
"(b) CAP. vil. According to the old case of Daniel v. lucre,(e) a release ...
lucre were reversed, it was held that a grant of administration in the foreign ..."
3. The Christian Examiner and General Review edited by Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware (1836)
"... Dr. lucre, und Dr. NITZSCH, herausgegeben von Dr. C. ... von FRIEDRICH lucre.
, /<<y' Recollections of ..."
4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"Robbery indeed is the constant theme both of the Capitularies and of the Anglo-Saxon
laws ; one has more reason to wonder at the intrepid thirst of lucre, ..."
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