lucrative
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈluː.kɹə.tɪv/
美 /ˈlu.kɹə.tɪv/|[ˈlu.kɹə.ɾɪv]|/ˈlʉː.kɹə.tɪv/|[ˈlʉː.kɹə.ɾɪv]
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Producing a surplus; profitable.
— Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
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Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
— Command and Control centers and headquarters are strategically important and lucrative targets.
词汇关系
词源
Borrowed from French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus (“profitable”), from lucratus, past participle of lucror (“to gain”), from lucrum (“gain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Compare Spanish lucrar. By surface analysis, lucre + -ative.
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