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lucre

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See also: lucré

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English lūcre, lucor, lucour, lucur (gain in money, profit; money; wages; illicit gain; advantage, benefit), from Old French lucre or Latin lucrum (advantage, profit; love of gain, avarice),[1][2] from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (gain, profit) + *-tlom (variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)).

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Noun

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lucre (uncountable)

  1. Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ lūcre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ lucre, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Anagrams

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French

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Noun

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lucre m (plural lucres)

  1. lucre

Further reading

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Galician

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Verb

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lucre

  1. inflection of lucrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

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Verb

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lucre

  1. inflection of lucrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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lucre

  1. inflection of lucrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative