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lucre
English
Etymology
From Middle English l?cre, 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 *leh?w- (“gain, profit”) + *-tlom (variant of *-trom (“suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?lu?k?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?lu?k??/
- Hyphenation: lu?cre
Noun
lucre (uncountable)
- Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
Synonyms
- mammon
Derived terms
- filthy lucre
Related terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- lucre (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- cruel, ulcer
Portuguese
Verb
lucre
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of lucrar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of lucrar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of lucrar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of lucrar
Spanish
Verb
lucre
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lucrar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lucrar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lucrar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lucrar.
lucre From the web:
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pickings
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?k??z/
Noun
pickings
- plural of picking
pickings From the web:
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