lucre
12 synonyms and 1 antonym for lucre, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Money or wealth, especially when gained dishonestly or seen as morally corrupting.
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Etymology
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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