how to pronounce lucrative

/ˈlukɹətɪv/

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lucrative is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of lucrative in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… and became a not so lucrative one at …”

meanings of lucrative

adjective:

Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
Producing a surplus; profitable.

lucrative frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word lucrative occurs in english on average 3.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics lucrative can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that lucrative can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;