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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

lucrativus

, fr.

lucrari

to gain, fr.

lucrum

gain: cf. F.

lucratif

. See

Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods;

as, a

lucrative

business or office

The trade of merchandise being the most

lucrative

, may bear usury at a good rate.

Bacon.

Greedy of gain.

[Obs.]

Such diligence as the most part of our

lucrative

lawyers do use, in deferring and prolonging of matters and actions from term to term.

Latimer.

Adj.

[L. lucrativus, from lucror, to gain profit.]

Gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as a lucrative trade; lucrative business or office.