• (RP) IPA: /ˈluːkə/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈluːkəɹ/

lucre (uncountable)

1. Money, riches, or wealth, especially when seen as having a corrupt#Verb|corrupting effect or cause#Verb|causing greed, or obtained in an underhanded manner.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Timothy 3:2–3 ↗:

     A Biſhop then muſt be blameleſſe, the huſband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behauiour, giuen to hoſpitalitie, apt to teach; / Not giuen to wine, no ſtriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous; {{...}

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: Printed for Nath[aniel] Ponder […], OCLC 228725984 ↗; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, […], 1928, OCLC 5190338 ↗, page 145 ↗:

     By-ends and Silver-Demas both agree; / One calls, the other runs, that he may be / A ſharer in his lucre; ſo theſe two / Take up in this World, and no further go.

• Mammon

• French: gain, profit
• Spanish: lucro