lucrative, moneymaking, remunerative
(adjective) producing a sizeable profit; “a remunerative business”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lucrative (comparative more lucrative, superlative most lucrative)
Producing a surplus; profitable.
(military) Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
• Said of profession, occupation, position, office, business, deal, etc.
• nonlucrative
• revictual, victualer
Source: Wiktionary
Lu"cra*tive, a. Etym: [L. lucrativus, fr. lucrari to gain, fr. lucrum gain: cf. F. lucratif. See Lucre.]
1. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon.
2. Greedy of gain [Obs.] Such diligence as the most part of our lucrative lawyers do use, in deferring and prolonging of matters and actions from term to term. Latimer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
