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  • adjective Not lucrative.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ lucrative

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Examples

  • Vicky, my husband is also very supportive of my, so far nonlucrative, writing career, and I've been grateful for my safety net.

    Outstanding in My Field | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

  • Our ensuing two-hour conversation evolved into a mystifying, nonlucrative abortion.

    Eating the Dinosaur Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • So far her audience has consisted of predictably friendly (but nonlucrative) forums.

    Guinier: The Rewards Of Martyrdom 2008

  • If you're finding your flow in something that is sedentary, uncreative, and nonlucrative, well, it might be okay.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • If you're finding your flow in something that is sedentary, uncreative, and nonlucrative, well, it might be okay.

    Flow/flOw. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Both activities are uncreative aside from the minority of videogames support user creativity as part of play and nonlucrative.

    Flow/flOw. Ann Althouse 2007

  • If you're finding your flow in something that is sedentary, uncreative, and nonlucrative, well, it might be okay.

    Flow/flOw. Ann Althouse 2007

  • GNU code of RibbonPanel, free software for personal and nonlucrative use, for rest please contact me

    The Code Project Latest Articles 2009

  • An account of the adventures of a hippie private eye pursuing assorted nonlucrative commissions in a Southern California beach town around 1970,

    Critical Mass 2009

  • It’s to be used with an article I’m writing in a magazine with nonlucrative goal.

    Biriyani….this one rocked my world! « Salt and Pepper. 2005

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