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superlucration

superlucration noun: excessive or extraordinary gain.

Noun

superlucration (usually uncountable, plural superlucrations)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Excessive or extraordinary gain.
    • The superlucration between France and Holl.1676, William Petty, Political Arithmetick, edition 1899, p. 254)
    • the Superlucration from the Labour of the same Number of Men, over and above their own Nourishment, could, no manner of ways have been so beneficial to the Kingdom.1698, Charles Davenant, “On the Plantation Trade”, in Two Discourses on the Public Revenues and Trade of England

Forms of superlucration

pluralsuperlucrations

Origin of superlucration

From super- + Latin lucratio (“gain”).

Questions about superlucration

What does superlucration mean?
Superlucration means excessive or extraordinary gain.
What part of speech is superlucration?
Superlucration is a noun.
What is the plural of superlucration?
The plural of superlucration is superlucrations.

Words near superlucration in the dictionary

  1. superlubric
  2. superlubricant
  3. superlubricants
  4. superlubricity
  5. superlucky
  6. superlucration
  7. superlucrations
  8. superlumic
  9. superluminal
  10. superluminal particle
  11. superluminal particles

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