Lucrative meaning

Adjective: lucrative

Pronunciation: (loo-kru-tiv)

Lucrative meaning:Producing a sizeable profit.

Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative, profitable

Noun: lucrativeness

Pronunciation: (loo-kru-tiv-nus)

Lucrativeness meaning: The quality of affording gain, benefit or profit

Synonyms: gainfulness, profitability, profitableness

Quotations: Jon Stewart – Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects. And it’s easy to make fun of an incident like this. Very easy. But it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about.Moms, dads, if you’re watching right now, I can’t emphasize enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice president. I don’t care what kind of lucrative contracts they’re trying to land or energy regulations they’re trying to get lifted. It’s just not worth it.

Hines Ward – When you get large, lucrative contracts, the expectations are a little greater. The statistics aren’t what I’m accustomed to, but what I brought each Sunday was going out and giving it all I’ve got.

Rob Enderle – Motorola will do whatever it takes to maintain its dominant position and if that means doing stuff on Linux it means doing stuff Linux. If that means doing stuff on Microsoft then they’ll do stuff on Microsoft.They are not religious. They’ll do what their customers want them to do because the don’t want to give up this very lucrative market to anyone else.

Bill Taylor – It’s long hours, it means giving up holidays with your family for what’s not a really lucrative job. But at least you have the satisfaction of creating something beautiful.

Deborah Godfrey – There’s more and more places all the time that are going to these private loans because they are so lucrative. And they have such aggressive collection practices.

Sample sentences:

• Because modelling is lucrative, I’m able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.
• DVD’s have been a huge cash cow for the studios and it will remain a pretty valuable revenue stream, but it won’t remain as lucrative as it has in the past.
• If they do renew, they cautioned us it’s not going to be as financially lucrative to the district.
• It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
• What better way to buy access to a lawmaker than to hire the lawmaker’s son, daughter or spouse as their lobbyist on a lucrative retainer?
• It’s a highly lucrative market that is widely perceived as being under-addressed.
• That is one area that Microsoft thinks is potentially very lucrative and fast growing.
• You don’t see them this lucrative very often. This is kind of off the charts.
• It’s a lucrative acquisition opportunity.
• It’s a lucrative market, and a great audience. These are people who spend money and replace their machines on a regular basis.