lucre

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We didn't say it, but we despised the filthy lucre.

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informal terms for money

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noun

informal terms for money

noun

the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lucre.

noun

informal terms for money

See also: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, moolah

noun

the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

See also: net, profit, profits, earnings

Example sentences

We didn't say it, but we despised the filthy lucre.

If I were to buy a house like that for cash, it would take me quite a while to save up that much lucre.

There's plenty of lucre remaining in travel planning and mortgages.

It is the act of an intellectual, of someone who believes that ideas matter more than lucre.

DOJ has effectively removed all of that lucre from the poker economy.

"The phrasing, "to stuff my bank account" makes it sound like he feels like he made some Faustian bargain to give up his soul for the filthy lucre.

Engineering feels like the engine room on the Titanic, C levels escaping with lucre while the boilers are stoked.

I also don't agree with the subtle denigration of capitalism slipped in with the synonym "lucre.

The government has little power, and generals are always vulnerable to make decisions based on the lucre put at their disposal.

And of course you've got to be a super coding wizard who is more concerned with nerf battles and ping-pong than dirty lucre, jeez!Companies that hire many intelligent, mature, well-paid peers, are rare, I think.

A better question may be is it worth it for the government to subsidize research for humanities professors?Where is all of this filthy lucre that the government is throwing at humanities professors?

But if we were being realistic rather than spouting nonsense over such matters we would not be using evidence of three or four deaths as evidence of how Apple, Foxconn or even China are ignoring worker safety in pursuit of filthy lucre.

They enable both faceless corporations who want to make filthy lucre by shipping boring line-of-business apps and individuals who want to "expand human potential" or "instill a sense of wonderment and discovery".Reliability and robustness are very fundamental aspects to all software, no matter how it's built.