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lucre

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈluːkə/Part of speech nounSorted celruStarts with LEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Middle English lūcre, lucor, lucour, lucur (“gain in money, profit; money; wages; illicit gain; advantage, benefit”), from Old French lucre or Latin lucrum (“advantage, profit; love of gain, avarice”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“gain, profit”) + *-tlom (variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)).

Used in a sentence

  • By-ends and Silver-Demas both agree; / One calls, the other runs, that he may be / A ſharer in his lucre; ſo theſe two / Take up in this World, and no further go.
  • […] [I]t's only fair that you should pocket the lucre. I've had my share already.

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