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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lucre /ˈluːkə/

▶noun literary money, especially when gained dishonourably.

– origin ME: from Fr. lucre or L. lucrum; the phr. filthy lucre is with biblical allusion to Tit. 1:11.

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