英语词汇“lucre”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lucre

/ˈluːkə

noun [mass noun]

Money, especially when regarded as sordid or distasteful or gained in a dishonourable way: officials getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre...

Cheap points, and, possibly, some mitigating box office lucre, can be gained by criticizing an American audience overseas in Europe.
But at least most of us don't have to earn our lucre by taking bribes at refugee centres and metro police roadblocks.
They came here for lucre, they left when the money ran out.

Synonyms

money, cash, hard cash, ready money, funds, capital, finances, riches, wealth, spoils, ill-gotten gains, Mammon;

profit, profits, gain, proceeds, winnings

informal dough, bread, loot, the ready, readies, moolah

British informal dosh, brass, lolly, spondulicks, wonga, ackers

archaic pelf

Origin

Late Middle English: from French lucre or Latin lucrum; the phrase filthy lucre is with biblical allusion to Tit. 1:11.

单词	lucre
释义	lucre /ˈluːkə / noun [mass noun] Money, especially when regarded as sordid or distasteful or gained in a dishonourable way: officials getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre... Cheap points, and, possibly, some mitigating box office lucre, can be gained by criticizing an American audience overseas in Europe. But at least most of us don't have to earn our lucre by taking bribes at refugee centres and metro police roadblocks. They came here for lucre, they left when the money ran out. Synonyms money, cash, hard cash, ready money, funds, capital, finances, riches, wealth, spoils, ill-gotten gains, Mammon; profit, profits, gain, proceeds, winnings informal dough, bread, loot, the ready, readies, moolah British informal dosh, brass, lolly, spondulicks, wonga, ackers archaic pelf Origin Late Middle English: from French lucre or Latin lucrum; the phrase filthy lucre is with biblical allusion to Tit. 1:11. Rhymes bazooka, euchre, farruca, palooka, pooka, rebuker, snooker, Stuka, verruca
随便看	unembarrassed unembellished unembodied unemotional unemotionally unemphatic unemphatically unemployability unemployable unemployed unemployment unemployment benefit unemployment compensation unenclosed unencrypted unencumbered unending unendingly unendingness unendowed unendurable unendurably unenergetic unenforceable unengaged

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