lucrative
adjEtymology
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.
- derived from *leh₂w-✻
- derived from lucrativus
- borrowed from lucratif
Definitions
Producing a surplus
Producing a surplus; profitable.
- 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.
Of a target
Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
- Command and Control centers and headquarters are strategically important and lucrative targets.
- Its troops can be widely dispersed as light infantry, using light anti-ship, anti-air and anti-land missiles and weapons to defenda given area or facility without presenting lucrative targets for air, missile, and artillery fire.
The neighborhood
- antonymnonlucrative
- neighborlucre
- neighborLucretia
- neighborLucretius
- neighborlucriferous
- neighborlucrific
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at lucrative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at lucrative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at lucrative
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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