lucre

n. 收益, 钱财

发音

UK /ˈluːkə/
UK /ˈljuːkə/
US /ˈluːkɚ/
SCOT /ˈlʉkəɾ/
其它 /ˈlʉkəɹ/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.

    不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

sugar bread scratch profit net dough profits cabbage loot lettuce

上位词 2

money income

下位词 10

killing margin cleanup accumulation dividend mark-up fast buck filthy lucre gross profit quick buck

部分词 4

part share portion percentage

相关短语

filthy lucre n. 不义之财，用卑鄙手段得来的钱财; 赃款

词源

From Middle English lūcre, lucor, lucour, lucur (“gain in money, profit; money; wages; illicit gain; advantage, benefit”), from Old French lucre or Latin lucrum (“advantage, profit; love of gain, avarice”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“gain, profit”) + *-tlom (variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)).

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