Synonyms of the word lucre


LUCREBOODLE - BREAD - CABBAGE - CLAMS - DOUGH - EARNINGS - GELT - INCOME - KALE - LETTUCE - LOLLY - LOOT - MONEY - MOOLAH - NET - PELF - PROFIT - PROFITS - SCRATCH - SHEKELS - SIMOLEONS - SUGAR - WAMPUM

lucre

  • n. Gain in money or goods; profit; riches. Often in a negative sense.

boodle

  • n. Money, especially when acquired or spent illegally or improperly; swag.
  • n. (US, dialect) The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

bread

  • n. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
  • n. (countable) Any variety of bread.
  • n. (slang) Money.
  • n. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
  • v. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs.
  • n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.
  • v. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.
  • v. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.
  • n. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

cabbage

  • n. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
  • n. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
  • n. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
  • n. Used as a term of endearment.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Money.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
  • n. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
  • n. The cabbage palmetto.
  • v. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally…
  • v. (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.

clams

  • n. plural of clam.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clam.

dough

  • n. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter,…
  • n. (slang) Money.
  • v. (transitive) To make into dough.

earnings

  • n. wages, money earned, income.
  • n. (finance) business profits.
  • n. (finance) gains on investments; returns.

gelt

  • n. (rare) A lunatic.
  • n. (obsolete) Gilding; gilt.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of geld.
  • n. A gelding.
  • n. (slang) Money.
  • n. tribute; tax.
  • n. (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
  • n. (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah…
  • n. (archaic, Britain, thieves' cant and Polari) Money.

income

  • n. Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
  • n. (obsolete) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
  • n. (archaic or dialectal, Scotland) A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
  • n. (obsolete) An entrance-fee.
  • n. (archaic) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage…
  • n. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from…
  • n. That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible,…

kale

  • n. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea…
  • n. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.
  • n. (slang) money.

lettuce

  • n. An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves.
  • n. (uncountable) The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other…
  • n. (uncountable, US, slang) United States paper currency; dollars.

lolly

  • n. A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.
  • n. (Britain, slang, uncountable) Money.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of…
  • n. (Canada) Snow or fine ice floating on water.

loot

  • n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum…
  • n. The act of plundering.
  • n. plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
  • n. (colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents.
  • n. (video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
  • v. To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
  • v. To steal from.
  • v. (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

money

  • n. A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable…
  • n. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
  • n. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
  • n. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more…
  • n. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and…
  • n. Wealth.
  • n. An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
  • n. A person who funds an operation.
  • n. (as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money; monetary.

moolah

  • n. Archaic form of mullah.
  • n. Alternative spelling of moola.

net

  • n. A mesh of string, cord or rope.
  • n. A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
  • n. A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
  • n. Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
  • n. (by extension) A trap.
  • n. (geometry) Of a polyhedron, any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges…
  • n. A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between…
  • n. (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
  • n. (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
  • n. (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
  • v. (transitive) To catch by means of a net.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
  • v. To enclose or cover with a net.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) To score (a goal).
  • v. (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
  • v. To form network or netting; to knit.
  • adj. (obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
  • adj. Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
  • adj. Remaining after expenses or deductions.
  • adj. Final; end.
  • adv. After expenses or deductions.
  • n. The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
  • v. (transitive) To receive as profit.
  • v. (transitive) To yield as profit for.
  • v. To fully hedge a position.

pelf

  • n. Money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre).

profit

  • n. Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization…
  • n. (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
  • n. (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land…
  • v. (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
  • v. (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.

profits

  • n. plural of profit.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of profit.

scratch

  • v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
  • v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
  • v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
  • v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
  • v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
  • v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
  • v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
  • v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
  • v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
  • v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
  • n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
  • n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
  • n. (sports).
  • n. (slang) Money.
  • n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
  • n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
  • n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
  • n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
  • adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
  • adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
  • adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
  • adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
  • adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
  • adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

shekels

  • n. plural of shekel.

simoleons

  • n. (slang) plural of simoleon.
  • n. (slang) Money.

sugar

  • n. (uncountable) Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to…
  • n. (countable) A specific variety of sugar.
  • n. (countable, chemistry) Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
  • n. (countable) When used to sweeten a drink, an amount of this substance approximately equal to five grams…
  • n. (countable) A term of endearment.
  • n. (countable, slang) A kiss.
  • n. (chiefly southern US, slang, uncountable) Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
  • n. (uncountable, informal) Diabetes.
  • n. (dated) Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
  • n. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing…
  • n. (US, slang) Heroin.
  • v. (transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
  • v. (US, Canada, regional) In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it…
  • v. (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
  • v. (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
  • interj. (informal, euphemistic) Used in place of shit!

wampum

  • n. Small beads made from polished shells, especially white ones, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain…
  • n. (informal) Money.

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