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lucrative
[ loo-kruh-tiv ]
adjective
- profitable; moneymaking; remunerative:
a lucrative business.
lucrative
/ ˈluːkrətɪv /
adjective
- producing a profit; profitable; remunerative
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Derived Forms
- ˈlucrativeness, noun
- ˈlucratively, adverb
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Other Words From
- lucra·tive·ly adverb
- lucra·tive·ness noun
- non·lucra·tive adjective
- non·lucra·tive·ly adverb
- non·lucra·tive·ness noun
- un·lucra·tive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lucrative1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lucrative1
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Example Sentences
Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
There is no doubt Shadman used his contacts to start a very lucrative business providing services to Special Forces units.
Add on some lucrative sponsorship deals with Pepsi, Adidas, and Turkish Airlines, and he takes home about $65 million a year.
There is certainly a lucrative yet dignified sweet spot between small time micro-brewer and soulless mass-producer.
And this week CNPC agreed to buy 10 percent of Vankorneft, a Rosneft subsidiary, which operates the lucrative Vankor oil field.
Those who can get enough to invest in an organ or a discordeon abandon the Bible business, which is not lucrative.
His own wish was to keep the Treasurership, which was both the more lucrative and the more secure of his two places.
You have large grants, a lucrative employment in Holland, a fine house.
He was M.P. for Whitchurch in four successive Parliaments, and held a series of important or lucrative offices.
In some inland districts beans of the castor oil plant, which grows in great abundance, are a lucrative article of trade.
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