lucre

Meaning of lucre

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

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

Information about lucre

Hyphenation of lucre

lu-cre

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
  • lucre is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

lucre synonyms

Meaning boodle:

boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

Meaning net income:

net, profit, profits, earnings

Meaning a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectively:

money

Meaning money in coins or notes, as distinct from cheques, money orders, or credit:

cash

Meaning a sum of money saved or made available for a particular purpose:

funds

Meaning the city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region:

capital

Meaning the management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies:

finances

Meaning material wealth:

riches

Meaning an abundance of valuable possessions or money:

wealth

Meaning goods stolen or taken forcibly from a person or place:

spoils

Meaning wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of worship and devotion:

Mammon

Meaning an increase in wealth or resources:

gain

Meaning money obtained from an event or activity:

proceeds

Meaning money won, especially by gambling:

winnings

Meaning money:

dosh, spondulicks, wonga, ackers

Meaning a yellow alloy of copper and zinc:

brass

Meaning available money; cash:

readies

Translation of lucre

Anagrams of lucre

cruel, Curel, ulcer

Words that rhyme with lucre

faucre, eucre, involucre, Sucre, sucre

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