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lucre

noun

[L. lucrum.]

lu’ker. Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy. The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. A bishop must be blameless - not given to filthy lucre. Jifus 1:7.