| 单词 | lucre |
| 释义 | lucre (once / 6274 pages) n Lucre is another word for money, or profit. It's most often used to describe money gotten illegally or immorally. Well-heeled bankers and lawyers make profits; drug dealers and bank robbers get filthy, rotten lucre. You might think of lucre as the term that gets at the dark side of capitalism. Some people will do anything in the pursuit of lucre. Political groups that call Hollywood immoral still accept the lucre that it offers. We all love money, except when it causes us to do terrible things to ourselves and others. Then it's lucre. WORD FAMILYlucre: lucres USAGE EXAMPLESThe lucre that purchases, and the people who buy these assets are anathema to the notion of revealing their identity. New York Times(Jul 11, 2016) Boy, that's a tough one for anyone interested in winning, no matter how much lucre Dolan ponies... New York Times(Jul 09, 2016) America is much safer for legally earned wealth that is evading taxes than for lucre that was filthy from the start. Economist(Feb 18, 2016) 1n informal terms for money Syn|Hyper boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum money the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender 2n the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) Syn|Hypo|Hyper earnings, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits earning per share the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock windfall profitprofit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it cleanup, killinga very large profit fast buck, quick buckquick or easy earnings, "they are traders out to make a fast buck" filthy lucreshameful profit gross profit, gross profit margin, margin(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold markupthe amount added to the cost to determine the asking price accumulation(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation dividendthat part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly fund, stock, storea supply of something available for future use backlog, reserve, stockpilesomething kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose stock dividenda dividend paid in stock rather than in cash extra dividenda dividend paid in addition to the regular dividend equalizing dividenda dividend paid to compensate shareholders for losses resulting from a change in the dividend schedule divvyshort for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society income the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time |
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