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Lucre

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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Narrower term 4

Accumulation 76% connected

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

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Dividend 76% connected

A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- ap…

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Killing 76% connected

of Kill

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Margin 76% connected

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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Income 76% connected

A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.

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Money 76% connected

A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial trans…

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Component part 4

Part 70% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Percentage 70% connected

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

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Portion 70% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Share 70% connected

The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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Synonym 16

Boodle 92% connected

The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

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Bread 92% connected

To spread.

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Cabbage 92% connected

An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The caul…

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Dough 92% connected

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

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Earnings 92% connected

of Earning

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Gelt 92% connected

Trubute, tax.

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Kale 92% connected

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.

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Lettuce 92% connected

A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactu…

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Loot 92% connected

The act of plundering.

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Moolah 92% connected

Alt. of Moollah

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Net 92% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Pelf 92% connected

Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

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Profit 92% connected

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or o…

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Scratch 92% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Sugar 92% connected

A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certa…

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Wampum 92% connected

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

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