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gain
(Electronics) An increase in signal power, voltage, or current by an amplifier, expressed as the ratio of output to input.
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  1. (Electronics) An increase in signal power, voltage, or current by an amplifier, expressed as the ratio of output to input.
  2. An increase in wealth, earnings, etc.; profit; winnings
  3. An increase in amount or degree:
profit
Advantage; gain; benefit
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  1. Advantage; gain; benefit
  2. Monetary gain from business transactions
  3. An advantageous gain or return; benefit.
cash
Bills and coins; currency
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  1. Bills and coins; currency
  2. Any of various Asian coins of small denomination, especially a copper and lead coin with a square hole in its center.
  3. Money that a person actually has, including money on deposit; esp., ready money
currency
Common acceptance; general use; prevalence
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  1. Common acceptance; general use; prevalence
  2. (Rare) The time during which anything is current
  3. The money in circulation in any country; often, specif., paper money
money
Pecuniary profit or loss:
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  1. Pecuniary profit or loss:
  2. A wealthy person, family, or group:
  3. Any definite or indefinite sum of money
wampum
Small beads made of shells and used by North American Indians as money, for ornament, etc.: they were of two varieties, white and the more valuable black (or dark purple)
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  1. Small beads made of shells and used by North American Indians as money, for ornament, etc.: they were of two varieties, white and the more valuable black (or dark purple)
  2. (Slang) Money
bread
A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
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  1. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
  2. Means of support; livelihood:
  3. (--- Slang) Money.
cabbage
(Archaic) Cloth snippets appropriated by a tailor when cutting out clothes
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  1. (Archaic) Cloth snippets appropriated by a tailor when cutting out clothes
  2. Any of several forms of a vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) of the mustard family, having a globose head consisting of a short stem and tightly overlapping green to purplish leaves.
  3. (Slang) Paper money
dough
Any pasty mass like this
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  1. Any pasty mass like this
  2. A mixture of flour, liquid, leavening, and other ingredients, worked into a soft, thick mass for baking into bread, pastry, etc.
  3. (Slang) Money.
gelt
(Obsolete) Gilding; gilt.
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  1. (Obsolete) Gilding; gilt.
  2. (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
  3. Money.
green
(--- Sports) A putting green.
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  1. (--- Sports) A putting green.
  2. Anything colored green, as clothing
  3. (Slang) Money, esp. paper money
jack
(Hunting) A torch or light used to attract fish or game at night
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  1. (Hunting) A torch or light used to attract fish or game at night
  2. Any of various machines used to lift, hoist, or move something heavy a short distance
  3. (Slang) Money.
lettuce
Any of a genus (Lactuca) of hardy, annual composite plants; specif., a plant (L. sativa) grown for its crisp, succulent, green leaves
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  1. Any of a genus (Lactuca) of hardy, annual composite plants; specif., a plant (L. sativa) grown for its crisp, succulent, green leaves
  2. The leaves of such a plant, much used in salads
  3. (Slang) Paper money
long green
(Idiomatic, slang, often preceded by some or the) Money, especially in the form of cash.
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  1. (Idiomatic, slang, often preceded by some or the) Money, especially in the form of cash.
  2. (Slang, old) paper money
mazuma
Money; cash.
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  1. Money; cash.
scratch
A wound, usually superficial, inflicted by nails, claws, or something pointed pulled across the skin, etc.
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  1. A wound, usually superficial, inflicted by nails, claws, or something pointed pulled across the skin, etc.
  2. (Sports) The starting point or time of a contestant who receives no handicap
  3. (Slang) Money
brass
(Uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude.
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  1. (Uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude.
  2. (Countable, music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound.
  3. (Slang, dated) Money.
Find another word for lucre. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for lucre, like: gain, spoils, profit, wealth, cash, currency, money, wampum, bread, cabbage and dough.

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  • the church of this land use not to learn any other science, but the law of canon, for covetise of lucre transitory."

  • For the latter they have nothing but condemnation, but the former they acknowledge as part of the divine order of the state, while the y complain that the priests have prostituted their office for lucre.

  • filthy lucre.

  • Ellis has an African Gray parrot called filthy Lucre.

  • In the end neither Tom or Cheryl got their hands on the filthy lucre.

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