lucre

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lu=cre

CIDE DICTIONARY

lucre, 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lucre, n. derog. financial profit or gain.

Idiom

filthy lucre see FILTHY.

Etymology

ME f. F lucre or L lucrum

THESAURUS

lucre

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

ROGET THESAURUS

lucre

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

Wealth

N wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence, good circumstances, easy circumstances, independence, competence, solvency, provision, livelihood, maintenance, alimony, dowry, means, resources, substance, property, command of money, income, capital, money, round sum, mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi, long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets, purse of Fortunatus, embarras de richesses, pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre, loaves and fishes, rich man, moneyed man, warm man, man of substance, capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens, Timocracy, Plutocracy, Danae, wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much, well to do, well off, warm, comfortable, well, well provided for, made of money, rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew, rolling in riches, rolling in wealth, flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin, in funds, in cash, in full feather, solvent, pecunious, out of debt, in the black, all straight, one's ship coming in, amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout, love does much but money does everything, aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, magna servitus ist magna fortuna, mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven, opum furiata cupido, vera prosperita e non aver necessita, wie gewonnen so zerronnen.