Examples of lucrative in a Sentence

Their success has given Gladwell an active, and extremely lucrative, second career as a public speaker. Much in demand, he is paid in the neighborhood of $40,000 per lecture. — Rachel Donadio, New York Times Book Review, 5 Feb. 2006 Clubs take care of their star and other best players first, paying them lucrative salaries. By the time they get to the bottom half of the roster, they would not have enough money left to pay veterans worthwhile salaries … — Murray Chass, New York Times, 16 Aug. 1994 Since the health care industry is lucrative and largely insulated from the usual disciplines of the marketplace, it has been able to absorb an ever-growing fraction of the gross domestic product. — Marcia Angell, New England Journal of Medicine, 17 June 1993 The learned profession of the law was certainly not behind any other learned profession in its Bacchanalian propensities; neither was Mr. Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 The business has proved to be highly lucrative. the hired gun's mission was to turn the failing store into a lucrative operation

Recent Examples on the Web While overall revenue fell by 37% year over year, equipment revenue, the lucrative business of outfitting and periodically refurbishing franchised gyms, tumbled by 71%. — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, "Planet Fitness Needs to Flatten More Curves," 14 Dec. 2020 Mining iron ore, marble, copper, gold, zinc and other metals and rare-earth minerals in mountainous Afghanistan is an increasingly lucrative business for the Taliban. — Hanif Sufizada, The Conversation, "The Taliban are megarich – here’s where they get the money they use to wage war in Afghanistan," 8 Dec. 2020 Manufacturing coronavirus vaccines is a potentially lucrative business, but how much will these companies earn? — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, "How drug companies will profit from making Covid-19 vaccines," 1 Dec. 2020 That's because Avaya has made a transformational shift to focus more on the lucrative business of cloud software and less on clunky hardware. — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, "Working from home is a boost for a...desktop phone company?," 19 Nov. 2020 The case revealed a lucrative business in the kind of firearms Californians cannot purchase without a badge. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, "Ex-Torrance police officer to plead guilty to federal charges of illegal gun dealing as a straw buyer," 10 Nov. 2020 Questions about whether Hunter Biden used his father’s name and influence to conduct lucrative business with foreign countries, including China and Ukraine, have gained new traction as Election Day approaches. — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, "Trump prosecutes case against Hunter Biden in campaign's final moments," 30 Oct. 2020 Educating international students is a lucrative business long dominated by U.S. schools. — Janet Lorin, Bloomberg.com, "Trump’s War on Student Visas Raises Election Stakes for Colleges," 29 Oct. 2020 Ant’s looming market debut had been clouded by concerns over growing regulatory scrutiny at home for its lucrative consumer credit business as well as a U.S. State Department proposal to add the company to a trade blacklist. — Julie Zhu And Scott Murdoch Reuters, Star Tribune, "China's fintech giant, Ant Financial, unveils world's largest IPO," 26 Oct. 2020

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