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lucre |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lucre \Lu"cre\, n. [F. lucre, L. lucrum.] Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lucre n 1: informal terms for money [syn: {shekels}, {gelt}, {dough}, {bread}, {dinero}, {loot}, {pelf}, {moolah}, {cabbage}, {kale}] 2: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time [syn: {net income}, {net}, {net profit}, {profit}, {profits}, {earnings}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Lucre from the Lat. lucrum "gain." 1 Tim. 3:3, "not given to filthy lucre." Some MSS. have not the word so rendered, and the expression has been omitted in the Revised Version.
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