Meaning of LUCRE
| Pronunciation: | | 'lookur
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- [n] the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- [n] informal terms for money
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| | Synonyms: | | bread, cabbage, dinero, dough, earnings, gelt, kale, loot, moolah, net, net income, net profit, pelf, profit, profits, shekels |
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| | See Also: | | accumulation, cleanup, dividend, earning per share, gross profit, gross profit margin, income, killing, margin, markup, money, part, percentage, portion, share, windfall profit | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Lu"cre\, n. [F. lucre, L. lucrum.]
Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill
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The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | from the Lat. lucrum, "gain." 1 Tim. 3:3, "not given to filthy lucre." Some MSS. have not the word so rendered, and the expression has been omitted in the Revised Version. |
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| | Related Terms: | | affluence, and pence, assets, bottomless purse, bulging purse, capital gains, cash, circulating medium, cleanup, clear profit, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, currency, dividends, dollars, dough, earnings, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, emergency money, filthy lucre, fortune, fractional currency, gain, gains, get, gettings, gleanings, gold, greenbacks, gross, gross profit, handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency, high income, high tax bracket, hoard, income, independence, interest, jack, kale, killing, legal tender, lettuce, loot, luxuriousness, makings, mammon, managed currency, material wealth, mazuma, medium of exchange, mintage, money, money to burn, moneybags, neat profit, necessity money, net, net profit, opulence, opulency, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, possessions, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, proceeds, profit, profits, property, prosperity, prosperousness, rake-off, receipts, return, returns, riches, richness, scrip, shillings, silver, six-figure income, soft currency, specie, sterling, store, substance, take, take-in, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasure, upper bracket, wealth, wealthiness, winnings |
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