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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Lucrative

/lo͞ok'-rət-ĭv/ · Lu·cra·tive · IPA /ˈlu.kɹə.tɪv/
01 a. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
  1. 1.
    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.
  2. 2.
    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.