lucrative

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Adjective

lucrative

1. Producing a surplus; profitable.
2. (military) Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
   • 2001, Eric R. Taylor, Lethal Mists (page 196)

     Command and Control centers and headquarters are strategically important and lucrative targets.

   • 1999, Anthony H. Cordesman, Iran's Military Forces in Transition (page 208)

     Its troops can be widely dispersed as light infantry, using light anti-ship, anti-air and anti-land missiles and weapons to defenda given area or facility without presenting lucrative targets for air, missile, and artillery fire.

Antonyms

• nonlucrative

Translations

• French: lucratif
• German: lukrativ, rentabel
• Italian: redditizio, remunerativo, profittevole
• Portuguese: lucrativo
• Russian: прибыльный
• Spanish: lucrativo

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