lucre
Noun
- informal terms for money
- Synonyms
- boodle
- bread
- cabbage
- clams
- dinero
- dough
- gelt
- kale
- lettuce
- lolly
- loot
- moolah
- pelf
- scratch
- shekels
- simoleons
- sugar
- wampum
- Less specific
- Related
- pilfer
- cabbage
- purloin
- pinch
- abstract
- snarf
- swipe
- hook
- sneak
- filch
- nobble
- lift
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- Synonyms
- net income
- net
- net profit
- profit
- profits
- earnings
- Less specific
- More specific
- earning per share
- windfall profit
- killing
- cleanup
- fast buck
- quick buck
- filthy lucre
- gross profit
- gross profit margin
- margin
- markup
- accumulation
- dividend
- Parts
- share
- portion
- part
- percentage
- Related
- profiteer
- profit
- turn a profit
- net
- clear
noun
- money, especially when regarded as sordid or distasteful or gained in a dishonourable way
filthy lucre
Origin
late Middle English : from French lucre or Latin lucrum ; the phrase filthy lucre is with biblical allusion to Tit. 1:11
Thesaurus
Noun
- he had seen the inheritance simply as a source of lucre
Similar Words: money cash hard cash ready money funds capital finances riches wealth spoils ill-gotten gains Mammon profit profits gain proceeds winnings dough bread loot moolah dosh brass lolly spondulicks wonga ackers the ready readies pelf
Producing much money, profitable
Now who's the king of these rude ludicrous lucrative lyrics