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noun
Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: net income, net, net profit, profit, profits, earnings
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: income
Narrower terms: earning per share, windfall profit, killing, cleanup, fast buck, quick buck, filthy lucre, gross profit, gross profit margin, margin, markup, accumulation, dividend
noun
informal terms for money
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: money
History
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)).
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
