lucrative
105
5.6
- adjective
- /ˈluːkrətɪv/
:
lucrativo
- Pretty soon, he became the envy of the gaming world after landing a lucrative deal with Sizzler.
- a lucrative job
- a lucrative career
- a lucrative business
The job is fun and it's super lucrative and it's like you with the jackpot.
- The job is fun and it's super lucrative and it's like you with the jackpot.
- Others are becoming doctors because they think it's lucrative, isn't it?
- No, it's so much more lucrative for these farmers.
- It just became quite a lucrative career.
- And those deals are what's really lucrative.
- So the model exists and it's really, really, really lucrative.
- You know, what's crazy is I never knew insurance was so lucrative.
- And then I realized that this could be quite a lucrative job.
- Whoever wins the most rounds will become a tread millionaire and receive a very lucrative prize.
- Yeah, you obviously have an incredible, lucrative career, but I want to talk about your personal life.
- The only way to get people into these jobs is to actually make it lucrative for businesses to train people.
- Like YouTube is an incredibly lucrative, you know, Ave.
Examples
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The arrangement offered plenty of discretion and was lucrative for the whole family.
Fiction book (1991) -
Well, that hobby has become quite lucrative, thank you very much.
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That is much more lucrative than writing on a film.
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Apparently it is the most lucrative show in the history of like forever.
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The only way to get people into these jobs is to actually make it lucrative for businesses to train people.
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STEM fields are very lucrative these days.
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Fortunately, proven techniques can turn each of these market failures into a lucrative business opportunity.
Academic text (1999) -
Most people don't recognize how lucrative a business a franchise can be.
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We've been offered a lucrative contract to do several 5-D TV chat shows.
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Many people consider software development to be a lucrative career choice due to the high salaries.
Synonyms
191
3.8
Makes more money than it costs
52
3.4
Making money or saving more than it costs
7
4.9
Work or activity that makes money for you
1
7.5
Paying well for work
Likely to earn money
Antonyms
How Profitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
lucrative = lucre (semi-transparent) = lucre + ative
The adjective relates to 'lucre' (profit) plus the suffix '-ative', but 'lucre' is relatively low-frequency/archaic and the suffix is inherited from Latin borrowing rather than a highly productive modern English process, so learners may not reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Lucrative comes from the Latin root lucrum, which means 'gain' or 'profit'. So a lucrative job or business is one that brings you a lot of money.