lucrative.html - adj.
profitable, yielding financial gain.

lucratively adv. lucrativeness n. [ME f. L lucrativus f. lucrari to gain]

lucrative.html - adj.
profitable, yielding financial gain.

lucratively adv. lucrativeness n. [ME f. L lucrativus f. lucrari to gain]

lucrative.html - adj.
profitable, yielding financial gain.

lucratively adv. lucrativeness n. [ME f. L lucrativus f. lucrari to gain]

lucrative.html - n.
derog. financial profit or gain.

filthy lucre see FILTHY . [ME f. F lucre or L lucrum]

lucrative.html - See: DOWN ON ONE'S LUCK, LUCK OUT, PRESS ONE'S LUCK or PUSH ONE'S LUCK, IN LUCK, OUT OF LUCK.

lucrative.html - {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Suddenly to get lucky when in fact the odds are against one's succeeding. * /I was sure I was going to miss the train as I was three minutes late, but I lucked out, the train was five minutes late./ 2. To be extraordinarily fortunate. * /Catwallender really lucked out at Las Vegas last month; he came home with $10,000 in cash./ 3. (By sarcastic opposition) to be extremely unfortunate; to be killed. * /Those poor marines sure lucked out in Saigon, didn't they?/