accumulation vs lucre

lucre vs accumulation

accumulation and lucre both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
accumulation	Yes	No	No	No
lucre	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lucre is a hypernym of accumulation; that is, lucre is a word with a broader meaning than accumulation:

accumulation: (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
lucre: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Other hypernyms of accumulation include earnings, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits.

accumulation (noun)	lucre (noun)
the act of accumulating	the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
several things grouped together or considered as a whole	informal terms for money
(finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
an increase by natural growth or addition

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