All 3 Uses of
lucrative
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She rested then, while Carol looked about the room—the welcome to strangers, the sanctuary of hospitable Main Street, the lucrative property of Kennicott's friend, Jackson Elder.†
Chpt 32
- Mr. Blausser reared up like an elephant with a camel's neck—red faced, red eyed, heavy fisted, slightly belching—a born leader, divinely intended to be a congressman but deflected to the more lucrative honors of real-estate.†
Chpt 35
- If enough of us do this impolitely enough, then we'll become civilized in merely twenty thousand years or so, instead of having to wait the two hundred thousand years that my cynical anthropologist friends allow....Easy, pleasant, lucrative home-work for wives: asking people to define their jobs.†
Chpt 38 *
Definition:
profitable