What does lucre mean?

Definitions for lucre
ˈlu kərlu·cre

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampumnoun

    informal terms for money

  2. net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earningsnoun

    the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Wiktionary

  1. lucrenoun

    Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in a negative sense.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Lucrenoun

    Gain; profit; pecuniary advantage. In an ill sense.

    Etymology: lucrum, Latin.

    Malice and lucre in them
    Have laid this woe here. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

    They all the sacred mysteries of heav’n
    To their own vile advantages shall turn,
    Of lucre, and ambition. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. xii.

    A soul supreme in each hard instance try’d,
    Above all pain, all anger, and all pride,
    The rage of pow’r, the blast of publick breath,
    The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. Alexander Pope.

    What can be thought of the procuring letters by fraud, and the printing them merely for lucre? Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. lucre

    Lucre refers to money or wealth, especially when gained in a dishonest or deceitful manner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lucrenoun

    gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense

  2. Etymology: [F. lucre, L. lucrum.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Lucre

    lū′kėr, n. gain (esp. sordid gain): profit: advantage.—adj. Lū′crative, bringing lucre or gain: profitable.—adv. Lū′cratively. [Fr.,—L. lucrum, gain.]

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  2. ulcer

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lucre in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lucre in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of lucre in a Sentence

  1. Edward Dahlberg:

    There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

  2. Lori Lightfoot:

    Gangs are preying on our most vulnerable, corrupting these young minds with promises of familia and lucre, none of us should accept that we have adults here and across Chicago preying upon vulnerable teenage boys.

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