Usually means: Money, especially when gained dishonestly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lucre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lucre: Merriam-Webster
  3. lucre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lucre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lucre: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lucre: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lucre, lucre: Wordnik
  8. lucre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lucre: Wiktionary
  10. lucre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lucre: Dictionary.com
  12. lucre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Lucre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Lucre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lucre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lucre: Rhymezone
  17. Lucre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lucre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. lucre: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lucre: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. lucre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lucre: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. lucre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  24. lucre: Infoplease Dictionary
  25. Lucre: Dictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. lucre: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lucre: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lucre: A Word A Day
  2. lucre: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lucre: Easton Bible
  2. LUCRE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lucre: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lucres as well.)

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noun:  Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupting effect or causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.

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