lucre

Meaning

Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.

Synonyms

profit

earnings

profits

scratch

net profit

net

net income

gelt

kale

lettuce

lolly

loot

simoleons

boodle

bread

🍞

cabbage

clams

dough

gain

pelf

sugar

wampum

shekels

moolah

dinero

room rate

take

taking

benefit

Mammon

money

💸

charge per unit

mammon

profiteering

fare

charge

Translations

lucro

lucre

κέρδος

lucro

gewin

winst

profit

guadagno

voordeel

bénéfice

gain

lucro

profitto

résultat

Gewinnsucht

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈl(j)uː.kə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: lūcre

In summary

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)).