Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Producing wealth; profitable: a lucrative income; a lucrative marketing strategy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Yielding lucre or gain; gainful; highly profitable: as, a lucrative transaction; a lucrative business or office.
- Greedy of gain; self-seeking.
- Synonyms Paying, remunerative.
Wiktionary
- adj. producing a surplus; profitable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods.
- adj. obsolete Greedy of gain.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. producing a sizeable profit
Etymologies
- From French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus ("profitable"), from lucratus, past participle of lucror ("I gain"), from lucrum ("gain"). See Spanish lucrar. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English lucratif, from Old French, from Latin lucrātīvus, from lucrātus, past participle of lucrārī, to profit, from lucrum, profit; see lau- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She tried to make a go of acting, doing voice-overs for commercials which she describes as "lucrative" but a long way from her dream of top billing.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“In my hometown the city council are essentially attempting the 80/20 split in lucrative city-centre areas.”
“Wallström said the communities in lucrative mining areas were at a particular high risk.”
The Huffington Post: Evelyn Leopold: UN Council Told to Act Against Rapists in Congo
“If they do, they won't receive the coveted UEFA license allowing those who qualify to play in lucrative continental competitions like the Champions League or the Europa League.”
“Their wallets are only large enough to contain lucrative images.”
“The other is Hank Morris, Mr. Hevesi's former political adviser, who was accused by Mr. Cuomo of requiring money managers to pay Mr. Morris before they could win lucrative contracts from the New York fund, one of the nation's largest.”
The Wall Street Journal: Plea to Turn Focus to Rattner, Morris
“Executives of the airline also said a modern fleet and the world's largest frequent-flier program will help the airline win lucrative business travel.”
“Some technology firms have built up patent-licensing businesses — following the lead of companies like International Business Machines Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. — and use lawsuits as a tool to win lucrative settlements.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tech Firms Intensify Clashes Over Patents
“Companies still rely strongly on outside pay consultants, and some of the same firms that advise companies on how much to give CEOs are paid even more in lucrative contracts for other services to the same companies.”
“From the NYT business page: “Banks have been able to borrow money cheaply and put it to work in lucrative ways, whether using the money to make loans at higher rates or to trade in the markets.””
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GRE 2014
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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verge, taper, lucrative, prig, ransack, wizened, martinet, flucuate, verbose, enigma, subdue, fertile and 12 more...
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arduous, canny, climax, endorse, exuberant, intrepid, kindle, lucrative, mentor, obssesion, personable, proficient and 3 more...
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moribund, unflagging, defunct, sated, inveigling, opining, needling, fulminating, lauding, vassals, serfs, minions and 86 more...
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GRE AWA
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cosmican IT business is lucrative since 1990s. Nov 19, 2007