Definition of "lucre" []

• Money or profits. (noun)

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• "By many accounts at least $150 million in corporate/billionaire lucre is being laundered through Rove's American Crossroads."
• "The part of you that suspects the lure of filthy lucre is the the unChristian one, assuming the worst about people."
• "Federal investigators are expected to ask the court to freeze about $93 million in assets, arguing that the lucre is the result of her husband's multi-billion dollar fraud."