lucrative
adj.adj. bringing in a lot of money. You use this word to describe jobs, deals, or businesses that are very profitable.
adj. producing a large amount of profit or financial gain. Typically used attributively before nouns like 'career', 'contract', or 'market'.
She found a lucrative job in finance.
The new trade agreement proved lucrative for local farmers.
While the startup offered equity, the established firm presented a lucrative salary package that eliminated immediate financial risk.
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.