as in profitable
yielding a profit
the new manager's mission was to turn the failing store into a lucrative operation
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Recent Examples of lucrative
The American billionaire’s audacious and unsolicited offer for Wembley Stadium was £600million ($813m at current exchange rates) up front and £300m in future revenues from the venue’s lucrative prawn-sandwich-brigade business.
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Matt Slater, New York Times, 7 June 2025
Musk's businesses have many lucrative federal contracts.
—CBS News, 7 June 2025
Putin had touted Turkey as a way back into the lucrative market for Gazprom but the gas giant's decision to shelve such plans deals a blow to Russia's quest to sell its vital revenue generator.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
Teens, once Hollywood’s lucrative market, no longer flock to theaters.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
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Matt Slater, New York Times, 7 June 2025
Musk's businesses have many lucrative federal contracts.
—CBS News, 7 June 2025
Putin had touted Turkey as a way back into the lucrative market for Gazprom but the gas giant's decision to shelve such plans deals a blow to Russia's quest to sell its vital revenue generator.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
Teens, once Hollywood’s lucrative market, no longer flock to theaters.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lucrative
profitable
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Boeing, with its essential role in American aerospace dominance and global commercial aviation, represents the perfect storm of characteristics that make TACO trades profitable.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Musk's SpaceX has spent years positioning itself at the center of American civil and military spaceflight – a profitable relationship that has made the company's CEO incredibly wealthy.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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“Lucrative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lucrative. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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