Synonym: moneymaking, remunerative. Similar words: narrative, pejorative, cooperative, administrative, democratic, native, relative, relatively. Meaning: ['luːkrətɪv] adj. producing a sizeable profit.
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(151) That is sobering for anybody tempted to chop down rainforest and plant something more immediately lucrative.
(152) Size and state-sector camaraderie allow China’s big five state banks to carve up lucrative loans for big government projects.
(153) This image of the snowman soon became lucrative. By the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the snowman had become the pitchman for almost every leading liquor company.
(154) Under consideration: duty free imports of some items from Africa. The plan is being prepared at a time when China has been edging out India for some lucrative African contracts.
(155) Investigators say the sale of false identification on the Internet is lucrative.
(156) But the far more lucrative portion of that world involves analyzing how users are accessing that data and finding ways to monetize those behaviors.
(157) Jake: an unsuccessful - yet well endowed - underwear model in L. A, who finds a lucrative new line of work as a platonic escort for women of a certain age.
(158) From about 2, 800 BC to AD 300, the city of Ubar in the Arabian Desert served as an outpost for the lucrative trade in frankincense, a sweet-smelling gum resin.
(159) Antenna Tower Update Gina and Lookout "Mountain" west of Denver, Denver, Colorado ..." Colorado " and the United States Senate to take over the local television station lucrative "land-use" towers.
(160) The checkpoints have become so lucrative that officers buy and sell them.
(161) For American Express, having "bad" customers —people who frequently fall behind in their payments, or who don't use their accounts —was impeding its ability to seek and serve the more lucrative ones.
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(162) NWSA.O), on Tuesday announced a restructuring that will see it cut around 30 percent of its Hong Kong headquarters staff to focus on the lucrative India market.
(163) The once lucrative high yield market went virtually silent as investors shied away from risky credit instruments.
(164) At a cost of just $45 million, the film may prove a lucrative investment for rebooting the puppet franchise across the spectrum of Disney platforms.
(165) Sometime in the weeks that follow this eclipse, you may get a surprise check, receive an offer to do a lucrative project, or be awarded a new professional position that pays well.
(166) Sanford Grossman, at the Wharton Business School [sentencedict.com], also left research for more lucrative pursuits.
(167) Black lung and other respiratory diseases are common among Indian miners, and their bodies are usually worn out after 10 to 15 years -- but mining is one of the more lucrative jobs available.
(168) If investors line up for RenRen's shares, high valuations and all, it could pave the way for an obscenely lucrative Facebook offering.
(169) Intelsat was a government franchise that was granted a monopoly on satellite communications, a monopoly that ultimately proved lucrative indeed.
(170) The trade of human flesh is so lucrative that authorities complain that even as they close in on one smuggling ring in the US, another one pops up.
(171) There is no profession so lucrative as that which practises on the superstition of the multitude.
(172) More importantly, his impact expanded the NBA's influence in Asia into lucrative merchandise sales and TV ratings.
(173) Yet recent declines in the population of these essential insects threaten the lucrative agricultural industry.
(174) In other words, the more procedures they performed – the most lucrative being the insertion of a stent in heart surgery – the more they took home in their pay check.
(175) Stealing trade secrets, information or contacts is a lucrative money-spinner for cybercriminals.
(176) It will allow it to make a full-fledged push into prime brokerage services, bolster its programme trading operations, and land more lucrative contracts advising on overseas deals.
(177) This lucrative and stable revenue stream tempers the volatility of buy - outs.
(178) Now who's these king of these rude ludicrous lucrative lyrics.
(179) As the trade has grown less risky and more lucrative, it has attracted some middle-class women seeking quick tax-free income.
(180) Well, a double for penalty will have been most lucrative.
More similar words: narrative, pejorative, cooperative, administrative, democratic, native, relative, relatively, initiative, innovative, legislative, alternative, conservative, representative, ratification, scratch, Democrat, aristocrat, active, motive, furtive, deductive, incentive, actively, punitive, subjective, supportive, deceptive, detective, cognitive.