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LUCRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
Synonyms:
earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Informal terms for money
Synonyms:
boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("lucre" is a kind of...):
money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)
