'Lucre' definitions:
Definition of 'lucre'
(from WordNet)
noun
Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
noun
The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) [syn: net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings]
Definition of 'Lucre'
From: GCIDE
- Lucre \Lu"cre\, n. [F. lucre, L. lucrum.] Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. [1913 Webster]
- The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'lucre'
From: Easton
- Lucre 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.
Synonyms of 'lucre'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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