LUCRATIVE

Yielding gain or profit; profitable; bearing or yielding a revenul! or salary. -Lucrative bailment. See BAILMENT.-Lucrative office. One which yields a revenue (in• the form of fees or otherwise) or a fired salary to the incumbent; according to some authorities, on.e which yields a compensation IJU~ posed to 1MI adequate.to. t,he 1ervice1 rendered [s. 746]