Lucre
['luːkə] or ['lukɚ]
Definition
(n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
Typed by Kevin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gain, profit, emolument, pelf, riches, wealth, mammon.
Typist: Marcus
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gain, profit, greed, mmm, mon, wealth, money
ANT:Loss, poverty, failure, privation,[See TOM], refuse
Edited by Fred
Definition
n. gain (esp. sordid gain): profit: advantage.—adj. Lū′crative bringing lucre or gain: profitable.—adv. Lū′cratively.
Typist: Sonia
Examples
- In the calm with which you learnt you had become suddenly rich, I read a mind clear of the vice of Demas:--lucre had no undue power over you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then she tried a child's story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Editor: Natasha