Definitions

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  • noun The property of being lucrative.

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  • noun the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit

Etymologies

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lucrative +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Revered once again today -- in South America for its lucrativeness and in the U.S. for its health benefits -- quinoa is gluten-free, high in protein and rich in nutrients like manganese, magnesium, iron, copper and phosphorus.

    Olivia Katrandjian: A Spoonful of Quinoa Risotto Makes the Medicine Go Down Olivia Katrandjian 2011

  • Revered once again today -- in South America for its lucrativeness and in the U.S. for its health benefits -- quinoa is gluten-free, high in protein and rich in nutrients like manganese, magnesium, iron, copper and phosphorus.

    Olivia Katrandjian: A Spoonful of Quinoa Risotto Makes the Medicine Go Down Olivia Katrandjian 2011

  • The ideal economy has low profit margins and large scale, so that profits are high, but as a function of the size of the industry rather than its lucrativeness.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Profit” Is Not a Dirty Word: 2009

  • But the enormous competition which has since sprung up in this "career" must interfere a good deal with its lucrativeness.

    Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

  • The novel, in fact, besides being the occasion of literature of the highest class, attracted by its lucrativeness that under-current of journey-work authorship which had hitherto busied itself in poetry or plays.

    English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

  • Each day that revealed to him the lucrativeness as well as popularity of his new profession, saw him more and more convinced that he had found his calling at last.

    The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. 1865

  • Plissoud did not save any money; for, though he was appointed to many offices, they were all lacking in lucrativeness; he was insurance agent, as well as agent for a society that insured against the chances for conscription.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • "We sell each egg for Nu 6 as opposed to private farms 'Nu 10 for each egg," Pema Wangdi said, adding that many private poultry farms had cropped up in the last few years, raising the lucrativeness of the business.

    Kuensel Newspaper 2010

  • "We sell each egg for Nu 6 as opposed to private farms 'Nu 10 for each egg," Pema Wangdi said, adding that many private poultry farms had cropped up in the last few years, raising the lucrativeness of the business.

    Kuensel Newspaper 2010

  • A potentially noble pursuit complementing its lucrativeness, if indeed as Elvis Costello sang, their aim is

    Cassandra Does Tokyo 2010

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