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profit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profits |
| Type of | income |
| Has types | killing, accumulation, margin, gross profit, gross profit margin, windfall profit, quick buck, markup, cleanup, dividend, earning per share, fast buck, filthy lucre |
| Derivation | profiteer |
profit::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | turn a profit |
| Type of | earn, take in, pull in, make, gain, bring in, realise, realize, clear |
| Has types | turn a nice dime, clean up, line one's pockets, turn a nice dollar, turn a nice penny |
The company has not profited from the merger.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | benefit, gain |
| Type of | acquire, get |
| Has types | net, capitalise, capitalize, cash in on, clear, profiteer, pyramid, sack, sack up, take advantage |
She profited from his vast experience.
profit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gain |
| Type of | advantage, vantage |
| Has types | gainfulness, lucrativeness, account, profitability, profitableness |
Examples of profit
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All proceeds will benefit Animal House Fund, a St. Louis non-profit cat shelter.
From the stltoday.com
She started a spice shop with two loans, which she repaid with her small profit.
From the bloomberg.com
In reality, the division struggled to launch products and never earned a profit.
From the bloomberg.com
The company on March 2 said it will post a profit following a year-earlier loss.
From the bloomberg.com
The bank plans pay out between 40 percent and 60 percent of profit in dividends.
From the bloomberg.com
The for-profit companies were Achievement Technologies and the Princeton Review.
From the desmoinesregister.com
The company previously anticipated high single-digit profit growth through 2013.
From the bloomberg.com
The team also made a profit last year, Chairman Adam Parr said in the statement.
From the bloomberg.com
We are continuing to execute our plans to increase international profit margins.
From the online.wsj.com
- Net income: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- Derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience"
- Make a profit; gain money or materially; "The company has not profited from the merger"
- The advantageous quality of being beneficial
- (profits) winnings: something won (especially money)
- In accounting, profit is the difference between price and the costs of bringing to market whatever it is that is accounted as an enterprise (whether by harvest, extraction, manufacture, or purchase) in terms of the component costs of delivered goods and/or services and any operating or other ...
- In neoclassical economics, economic profit, or profit, is the difference between a firm's total revenue and its opportunity costs. In classical economics profit is the return to the employer of capital stock (machinery, factory, a plow) in any productive pursuit involving labor. ...
- Profit is a Canadian business magazine aimed at entrepreneurs. It is published six times per year and, according to its website, focusses on "how to find opportunity and seize it", management practices, case studies and "access to peer groups".
- A profit (short for profit-u00E0-prendre in Middle French for "right of taking"), in the law of real property, is a nonpossessory interest in land similar to the better-known easement, which gives the holder the right to take natural resources such as petroleum, minerals, timber, and wild game from the land of another...
