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lucre

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Noun — Money or wealth, especially when gained dishonestly or seen as morally corrupting.

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It came into English as Middle English lūcre, lucor, lucour or lucur, meaning “gain in money, profit; money; wages; illicit gain; advantage, benefit”. This came from Old French lucre or Latin lucrum (“advantage, profit; love of gain, avarice”), which in turn came from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“gain, profit”) plus *...

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