Meanings
nounsuperlucration (usually uncountable, plural superlucrations)
plural superlucrations
- obsoleteuncountableusuallyExcessive or extraordinary gain.
The superlucration between France and Holl.
1676, William Petty, Political Arithmetick, edition 1899, p. 254)1 more example
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
Origin
- Latinlucratio“gain”
- Englishsuperlucration
From super- + Latin lucratio (“gain”).
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