lucrative的意思|lucrative的解释-里氏词典

lucrative ['lu:krәtiv]

a. 有利益的, 获利的, 合算的

lucrative

[ adj ]
producing a sizeable profit
<adj.all>
a remunerative business

Lucrative \Lu"cra*tive\, a. [L. lucrativus, fr. lucrari to gain,
fr. lucrum gain: cf. F. 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. [Obs.]

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.

In less than a month, the developer has announced two property deals that would put him in command of a lucrative five-block area in the center of the Boardwalk.
Hollywood never offered the wire-haired star a lucrative leading role in action-adventure pictures; these went instead to rivals Lassie and Rin-Tin-Tin.
And every indication is that brokers are reaping lucrative rewards from huge commissions they've been generating.
The economic benefits for the area near Waxahachie will include not only the lucrative construction funds but also an expected research budget of about $270 million annually and 3,500 permanent jobs.
Sixteen years after his father walked out, Snyder quit a lucrative job as a Madison Avenue headhunter and left his own wife and two sons to subsist on welfare and food stamps.
Tower showed flashes of grit and humor as he fielded questions at the National Press Club about allegations concerning excessive drinking, womanizing and lucrative consulting fees he received from defense contractors.
It had been feared that oil might move around Gore Point southwest of Prince William Sound and north into Cook Inlet, where a lucrative halibut fishery is scheduled to open in a month.
The company's most attractive assets include the Princess hotels in Mexico, Bermuda and the Bahamas, which analysts say could be especially lucrative as hotel prices surge.
America West Airlines has been given a deadline to line up financing commitments for its proposed $415 million purchase of Eastern Airline's lucrative Northeast shuttle or see its offer fail.
By effectively tapping into the US domestic market, the two European airlines can help secure lucrative business traffic which is so critical to profitability.
Digital Equipment Corp. launched a similar service last week, a signal that both companies see the possibility of a lucrative business in managing and servicing computer networks.
Two men pleaded guilty today to trying to bribe former Navy officials, in one case buying an official's condominium in Idaho for an inflated price in an attempt to influence decisions on lucrative Pentagon contracts.
Saturday mornings were already less than lucrative for the networks, and the pique over the meters is renewing rumblings about cancellations.
By this time, Loftus figures he could have been a veteran Justice Department prosecutor or perhaps he might have started a lucrative law practice in his home state of Massachusetts.
They said the three workers could get "potentially lucrative, albeit uncertain, relief" under the employers' liability law.
The gay market has been lucrative for Mr. Casaletto: Revenue has grown every year since he started the business. But the entrepreneur also has had to fight a host of battles most non-gay entrepreneurs never face.
At first, trappers found the fur business lucrative.
Chrysler was particularly interested in AMC's lucrative Jeep business, and the company's production capacity and dealer network were added lures.
Investigators later found that the elder Fairchild had helped Nixon obtain a highly lucrative oil and gas investment, but the judge was acquitted of receiving an illegal gratuity.
Sophisticated trial consulting grew, ironically, from the radical political movements of the 1960s and 1970s before finding its more lucrative calling in big commercial cases.
Telegraph shares slipped 3 to 365p. Suggestions that motor dealer T. Cowie may announce a lucrative deal together with today's interim figures helped the shares harden 4 1/2 to 268p.
Dahl thought the leases would be lucrative and promoted their sale to his friends and family members.
Health care executives in several states and a promoter have been charged with offering kickbacks in return for lucrative employee-benefit contracts with businesses and labor unions.
Those partnerships, which were lucrative for several Drexel staffers, also are under investigation by a House subcommittee.
Although the ATF remains by far the most lucrative project left for the aerospace industry in an era of dwindling military budgets, Maj. Gen.
Hillsdown implicitly admits as much by clinging to its housebuilding assets on the grounds that it could not easily replace them with a more lucrative investment in food. Nor has the market failed to recognise the improved outlook.
And a look at the Trafalgar House rights issue this week - that unhappy company's third in two years - shows just how lucrative the business is.
They also are accused in the criminal complaint of engaging in conspiracy to gain control over a lucrative boardwalk electric cart business and a gift shop franchise at the Atlantic City International Airport, Florentz said.
But others predict EJV, which stands for Electronic Joint Venture, eventually will carve a lucrative niche in parts of the huge government-bond brokerage business, where trading volume often exceeds $100 billion a day.
Arbitrators are finishing an accord under which IBM must grant access to one of its most lucrative markets.

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