Lucrative
['luːkrətɪv] or ['lukrətɪv]
Definition
(adj.) producing a sizeable profit; 'a remunerative business' .
Typed by Claus--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
(a.) Greedy of gain.
Edited by Laurence
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Profitable, remunerative, gainful, paying.
Typed by Floyd
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PROFITABLE]
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Examples
- One of the most important and lucrative industrial processes of the world to-day is that of staining and dyeing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is a lucrative source of emolument, and sometimes brings into the national treasury as much as thirty-five or forty dollars a year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Whereupon the Wall Street people thought it was a very lucrative business, so they concluded they would like to have it, and bought us out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- From childhood to age it has presented to us a lucrative employment. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- After a time Faust, realizing perhaps that Gutenberg was in reality the inventor of the art which he was beginning to find so lucrative, came to him, and asked his forgiveness. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- One of our most lucrative means of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security is unimpeachable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the mean time he had no money or prospects of money; and his practice was not getting more lucrative. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The trade with the Indians, for which its situation was very convenient, was exceedingly lucrative. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He suggested a number of lucrative opportunities to his Liverpool friends, and he took a financial share in some of them himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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