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Перевод: lucre

[существительное]
нажива ; барыш ; прибыль ; материальная выгода

Тезаурус:

1. So you see, Miss Abbott, though he might never, on account of his birth, want for money, he lacks sadly the human love that lucre can in no way replace.
2. Lucre.
3. He had seen this unlooked-for inheritance simply as a source of lucre.
4. Kruger didn't soil himself with the lucre, but Lorre had his fist out at every opportunity, and was wadding the bills into a fat, healthy roll while his master attempted union with the Infinite.
5. I was not the only person who felt betrayed by filthy lucre when the World Cup went to the satellite company.
6. Eventually Ryan appeased Neath by choosing more of their players but it made no difference: whatever kind of front five was chosen, static or mobile, Wales were beaten, and then when rugby league lucre had begun to attract an increasing number of his better players Ryan gave up the unequal struggle after the devastating defeat at Twickenham in 1990.
7. Cecil made it quite clear that in his opinion, at least, the strangers in charge of the works were pretending to act simply and fairly towards the society but were thought to be dealing more for their own private lucre than for the benefit of the society, this despite diverse great sums of money due by them for rent having been remitted for their better encouragement to carry on the work
8. Because the early Royal Society contained many passive members, encouraged for their lucre or social luster, would it not be a more sensitive test if the sample were restricted to the active nucleus?
9. Finally, the sweet exchange of personnel from, agency to corporation (and vice versa) and the extent to which some agency officials are amenable to getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre again make the executive suite a relatively safe place for planning illegal behaviour - there might even be some people present who are supposed to be enforcing the law!
10. It is easy to appreciate the lure of the lucre with Faldo winning 708,000 and 53 others on this year's tour banking more than 100,000.
11. He quotes Gamgee: "He toiled for lucre and not for the advancement of veterinary science".
12. Creative people are often not business minded, and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection, let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre.
13. Think and think again of the number of different rooms, the multitude of different beds, the mirrors, the endless dark stairways, the duplicated obscenities, the handfuls of folded pound notes, the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches, the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre, the bodily smells, the cheap perfumes, the wasted seed, the anxieties about disease, the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head.