lucrative
英検準1級儲かる・利益の多い
意味
- 利益が上がる,もうかる
例文
Several more companies are moving to enter the lucrative pet food market of the country.
あと数社の企業が同国の利益の高いペットフード市場に参入をねらっている。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Borrowed from French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus (“profitable”), from lucratus, past participle of lucror (“to gain”), from lucrum (“gain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Compare Spanish lucrar. By surface analysis, lucre + -ative.