Lucre - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈluːkər|
Brit.
|ˈluːkə|
noun
- informal terms for money (syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, sugar, wampum)
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) (syn: earnings, net, profit)
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) (syn: earnings, net, profit)
Extra examples
...foreign coins are not acceptable lucre in most vending machines in this country...
...it's usually lucre and not lust that motivates someone to set up a pornographic Web site...
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