LUCRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lucre mean? 

• LUCRE (noun)
  The noun LUCRE has 2 senses:

1. informal terms for money

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

  Familiarity information: LUCRE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUCRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum

Hypernyms ("lucre" is a kind of...):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits

Hypernyms ("lucre" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

Meronyms (parts of "lucre"):

part; percentage; portion; share (assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lucre"):

earning per share (the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock)

windfall profit (profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it)

cleanup; killing (a very large profit)

fast buck; quick buck (quick or easy earnings)

filthy lucre (shameful profit)

gross profit; gross profit margin; margin ((finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold)

markup (the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price)

accumulation ((finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation)

dividend (that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly)

 Context examples 

In the calm with which you learnt you had become suddenly rich, I read a mind clear of the vice of Demas:—lucre had no undue power over you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then she tried a child's story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)