the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
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Lucre \Lu"cre\, n. [F. lucre, L. lucrum.] Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope.
It rides the coat-tails of a film made for teenagers, but the film at least was honest: it did not claim to be other than fiction. Clearly Heinemann scents lucre.
The lucre is so lucrative that last year no fewer than a dozen seniors made more than in their regular career.
If literature now represents lucre, some are wondering at what price.