Definition of lucre Lucre
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What does lucre mean?
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| lucre - the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | ||
| net income, net, net profit, profit, profits, earnings | ||
| income the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time | ||
| earning per share the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock | ||
| windfall profit profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it | ||
| cleanup, killing (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) | ||
| fast buck, quick buck quick or easy earnings, "they are traders out to make a fast buck" | ||
| filthy lucre shameful profit; "he would sell his soul for filthy lucre" | ||
| gross profit, gross profit margin, margin (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold | ||
| percentage, share, portion, part a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) | ||
| markup detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics) | ||
| accumulation the act of accumulating | ||
| lucre - informal terms for money | ||
| boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum | ||
| money wealth reckoned in terms of money; "all his money is in real estate" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- lucre (n.)
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
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lucre
Income following the deduction of all expenses, taxes, and the like.
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🔤- lucre, noun, singular of lucres.
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