lucre : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lucre	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lucre n informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) Synonym(s): net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lucre \Lu"cre\, n. [F. lucre, L. lucrum.] Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Lucre from the Lat. lucrum, "gain." 1 Tim. 3:3, "not given to filthy lucre." Some MSS. have not the word so rendered, and the expression has been omitted in the Revised Version.