lucrative

CEFRC1

/ˈluː.kɹə.tɪv/

adjective

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Making a large amount of money.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.

Examples

  • I think that could be a lucrative deal.

  • Mexican drug cartels are vying over lucrative drug-trafficking routes to the U.S.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Also pronounced

  • [ˈlu.kɹə.ɾɪv]
  • [ˈlʉː.kɹə.ɾɪv]

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Producing a surplus; profitable.

More examples

In context

  • Several more companies are moving to enter the lucrative pet food market of the country.

  • In a given recent year, Celine has earned $40-$50 million from her various endeavors, though the majority of that income was thanks to a lucrative Las Vegas residency deal.

  • Command and Control centers and headquarters are strategically important and lucrative targets.

Antonyms

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The new business venture proved so blank that the owners doubled their investment in one year.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

Nearby

Origin

adjective

Borrowed from French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus (“profitable”), from lucratus, past participle of lucror (“to gain”), from lucrum (“gain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Compare Spanish lucrar. By surface analysis, lucre + -ative.