Lucrative vs Unlucrative - What's the difference?
lucrative | unlucrative |
Producing a surplus; profitable.
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As adjectives the difference between lucrative and unlucrative
is that lucrative is producing a surplus; profitable while unlucrative is not lucrative.lucrative
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Adjective
(en adjective)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}