lucrative

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Producing a lot of money; very profitable.

   She left her job to start a lucrative business selling handmade jewellery.

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.

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