Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lucrative

Lucrative , adjective

[Latin lucrativus, from lucrari to gain, from lucrum gain: compare French lucratif. See Lucre.]

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.
Greedy of gain. [Obsolete]
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