lucrative source

collocation in English

meaningsoflucrativeandsource

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lucrative
adjective
uk
/ˈluː.krə.tɪv/us
/ˈluː.krə.t̬ɪv/
(especially of a business, job, or activity) producing a lot ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition oflucrativeandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The tax would not be alucrativesourceof revenue.
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Regrettably, trafficking is too often linked with intercountry adoption, as it is a verylucrativesourceof income for the unscrupulous.
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It is alucrativesourceof revenue and the seed corn for new productions will be restricted.
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I should have thought that this was alucrativesourceof additional revenue.
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Coming to shipping, this was at one time a mostlucrativesourceof income.
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This is alucrativesourceof supply.
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To the ordinary people it gives rise to the suspicion that lawyers are a tightly-knit group of people organising themselves to maintain alucrativesourceof income.
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International arbitrations are alucrativesourceof foreign earnings, but the business is highly mobile.
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As we have seen in the past, once this is seen by unlawful traders as alucrativesourceof income, rivalries between traders ensue, with undesirable social consequences.
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It will be a verylucrativesourceof revenue, and it is one to which not many people can object, save those who try to sell them.
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Agriculture is depressed, the fishing industry is in even a worse condition, and the next mostlucrativesourceof revenue, sporting rentals, have been declining in recent years.
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The incident occurred along a stretch of highway know to be alucrativesourceof asset forfeiture revenue for state and local police departments.
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The company's management of the falls subsequently became alucrativesourceof profits as the area became the nucleus for a burgeoning mill industry.
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He began harvesting tanoak bark from the canyon, alucrativesourceof income at the time.
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This was her mostlucrativesourceof income.
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These are much cheaper than in neighboring countries, and are alucrativesourceof revenue for the country.
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The club, which operates as a gaming venue, has also been alucrativesourceof revenue for the club.
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These had royal protection and were alucrativesourceof revenue.
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Beethoven's hearing loss did not prevent him from composing music, but it made playing at concertsalucrativesourceof incomeincreasingly difficult.
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