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Another word for lucre

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Noun

  1. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange

    See also:

    money

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Another word for lucre

Noun
  1. See also:

    wealth

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • 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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