pickings
noun
1 pickings
The act of someone who picks up or takes something:
— The pickings were easy.
synonym: taking.
Roget 775:
acquisition;
gaining
etc.
v.;
obtainment;
procuration†,
procurement;
purchase,
descent,
inheritance;
gift
etc.
784.
recovery,
retrieval,
revendication†,
replevin [Law],
restitution
etc.
790;
redemption,
salvage,
trover [Law].
find,
trouvaille†,
foundling.
gain,
thrift;
money-making,
money grubbing;
lucre,
filthy lucre,
pelf;
loaves and fishes,
the main chance;
emolument
etc.
(remuneration)
973.
profit,
earnings,
winnings,
innings,
pickings,
net profit;
avails;
income
etc.
(receipt)
810;
proceeds,
produce,
product;
outcome,
output;
return,
fruit,
crop,
harvest;
second crop,
aftermath;
benefit
etc.
(good)
618.
sweepstakes,
trick,
prize,
pool;
pot;
wealth
etc.
803.
subreption
[Fraudulent acquisition];
obreption†;
stealing
etc.
791.
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Roget 793:
booty,
spoil,
plunder,
prize,
loot,
swag [Slang],
pickings;
spolia opima [Lat.],
prey;
blackmail;
stolen goods.
Dutch: consumptie, nuttiging
Moby thesaurus: blackmail, boodle, booty, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, dividends, earnings, filthy lucre, gain, gains, get, gettings, gleanings, graft, gross, gross profit, haul, hoard, hot goods, income, interest, killing, loot, lucre, makings, neat profit, net, net profit, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, plunder, pork barrel, prize, proceeds, profit, profits, public till, public trough, rake-off, receipts, return, returns, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, store, swag, take, take-in, till, wealth, winnings ... show more.
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