lucre
Plural: lucres
Noun
- Monetary gain, especially when considered sordid or ill-gotten.
- informal terms for money
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
Examples
- He was more interested in the intellectual challenge than the lucre of winning Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
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)).
Synonyms
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, earnings, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, net, net income, net profit, pelf, profit, profits, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum, mammon
Scrabble Score: 7
lucre: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlucre: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lucre: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary