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单词 lucrative
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Definition of lucrative in English:

lucrative

adjective ˈluːkrətɪvˈlukrədɪv
  • Producing a great deal of profit.

    a lucrative career as a stand-up comedian
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her trip to Milan has been extremely lucrative for her budding career.
    • With a combined turnover of £20 million, it's a lucrative business.
    • In their short period of operation, the Detroit casinos have proved extremely lucrative.
    • Even though film and television are more lucrative in terms of remuneration, theatre offers a true spiritual experience.
    • Her parents are still married but heavily focused on their lucrative careers.
    • Does this look like a newspaper that has made hundreds of millions out of a highly lucrative share offer?
    • Now, they worry about damage to the celebrity profiles that make their careers so lucrative.
    • There was a modern building to move into and lucrative development grants.
    • Tariffs make it lucrative for Europe and America to process coffee instead.
    • The company claims it has received a lucrative offer from the South Australian government.
    • As in the United States, gambling in Canada is hugely lucrative big business.
    • He urged companies in Essex to get their share of a potentially lucrative market.
    • Instead, he became more famous for crashing his Porsche and signing the world's most lucrative contract.
    • Looking forward, Croatia could be a potentially lucrative market for political consultants.
    • Curtailing all shopping and financially lucrative opportunities would be obviously counterproductive.
    • The market is lucrative: a pack of 200 cigarettes sells for €52.
    • He now uses his luck to run a casino, a venture that has proven very lucrative.
    • There was more money in the game thanks to lucrative television contracts.
    • To be sure, class-action law can be a highly lucrative business.
    • But today the genre stands as a lucrative niche in an otherwise struggling fiction industry.
    Synonyms
    profitable, profit-making, gainful, remunerative, moneymaking, paying, high-income, well paid, high-paying, bankable, cost-effective
    productive, fruitful, rewarding, worthwhile, advantageous
    thriving, flourishing, successful, booming, going

Derivatives

  • lucratively

  • adverbˈluːkrətɪvliˈlukrədɪvli
    • The very lucratively paid Canadians are embarrassingly, shamelessly scrabbling for excuses as to why they were well-beaten by a much better team of non-professionals.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Persistent complaints from residents in urban housing areas has led to the move, which may see local dog owners getting lovely friendly advice from lucratively paid specialists.
      • There are several, for example, who have served in the top ranks of Government and who get generous monthly pensions, and yet are lucratively employed elsewhere.
      • The way we eat now, especially in America, is not only wrong in itself, it produces the appetites which it then so abundantly and lucratively supplies.
      • We want business to do business in Johannesburg easily, lucratively and safely.
  • lucrativeness

  • noun
    • Chapter two outlines the wartime stimulus to the Southern African economy, and settler efforts to cash in, which the author terms, ‘the lucrativeness of loyalty.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Indonesia is also a haven for the international trade in endangered animals, an illegal activity that ranks only behind drug trafficking in lucrativeness.
      • You cannot discount the lucrativeness of the business.
      • In this age of tourism and exchange society needs not be reminded about the lucrativeness of the entertainment business.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin lucrativus, from lucrat- 'gained', from the verb lucrari, from lucrum (see lucre).

 
 

Definition of lucrative in US English:

lucrative

adjectiveˈlo͞okrədivˈlukrədɪv
  • Producing a great deal of profit.

    a lucrative career as a stand-up comedian
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With a combined turnover of £20 million, it's a lucrative business.
    • Her parents are still married but heavily focused on their lucrative careers.
    • The company claims it has received a lucrative offer from the South Australian government.
    • As in the United States, gambling in Canada is hugely lucrative big business.
    • Now, they worry about damage to the celebrity profiles that make their careers so lucrative.
    • Does this look like a newspaper that has made hundreds of millions out of a highly lucrative share offer?
    • Looking forward, Croatia could be a potentially lucrative market for political consultants.
    • Curtailing all shopping and financially lucrative opportunities would be obviously counterproductive.
    • Even though film and television are more lucrative in terms of remuneration, theatre offers a true spiritual experience.
    • Tariffs make it lucrative for Europe and America to process coffee instead.
    • The market is lucrative: a pack of 200 cigarettes sells for €52.
    • There was more money in the game thanks to lucrative television contracts.
    • To be sure, class-action law can be a highly lucrative business.
    • He urged companies in Essex to get their share of a potentially lucrative market.
    • He now uses his luck to run a casino, a venture that has proven very lucrative.
    • Instead, he became more famous for crashing his Porsche and signing the world's most lucrative contract.
    • There was a modern building to move into and lucrative development grants.
    • In their short period of operation, the Detroit casinos have proved extremely lucrative.
    • Her trip to Milan has been extremely lucrative for her budding career.
    • But today the genre stands as a lucrative niche in an otherwise struggling fiction industry.
    Synonyms
    profitable, profit-making, gainful, remunerative, moneymaking, paying, high-income, well paid, high-paying, bankable, cost-effective

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin lucrativus, from lucrat- ‘gained’, from the verb lucrari, from lucrum (see lucre).

 
 
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