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
That’s a metric analysts monitor as a sign of how lucrative the iPhone is for Apple.
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
In response, many current doctors would leave the field for more lucrative opportunities elsewhere and fewer young people would choose medicine as a career.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The only big-prize winner from Wednesday’s most lucrative Florida Lottery draw games — Powerball, Florida Lotto, Cash4Life, Fantasy 5 — played at a South Florida liquor store.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
Peng-Peng Gong was trained at the Juilliard School in New York but walked away from a lucrative career as an international concert pianist and returned to China as the resident composer of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in 2014.
—Vincent Ni, NPR, 13 Sep. 2025
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
In response, many current doctors would leave the field for more lucrative opportunities elsewhere and fewer young people would choose medicine as a career.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The only big-prize winner from Wednesday’s most lucrative Florida Lottery draw games — Powerball, Florida Lotto, Cash4Life, Fantasy 5 — played at a South Florida liquor store.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
Peng-Peng Gong was trained at the Juilliard School in New York but walked away from a lucrative career as an international concert pianist and returned to China as the resident composer of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in 2014.
—Vincent Ni, NPR, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lucrative
profitable
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The toolkit Substack built for The Free Press, a carrot to keep Bari Weiss’ profitable conservative outlet on the platform, is now being rolled out for other top publishers.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Another industry leader suffered a particularly devastating blow when Paris, its most profitable market, banned e-scooters entirely in 2023 following a public referendum.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Lucrative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lucrative. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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