Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Lucrative

Lucrative. It is spelled weird, but I believe it comes from Italian, so probably from Latin. Lucre is Money in Italian.

Lucrative means producing or yielding gain, profit or wealth.

Lucre means money or riches.

My dictionary does not list any synonyms, but I will do my best to provide some:

Beneficial, profitable, productive, and rewarding.

That's why I love working here. They just provided everyone on the floor with a tiny Fun Size 100 Grand candy bar. Don't worry, it has 30% less fat than the leading chocolate snacks, so they are definitely concerned with our health and well-being. The chocolate is a reward for processing over 100,000 phone calls during the month of August.