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profits::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit |
| Type of | income |
| Has types | dividend, earning per share, fast buck, filthy lucre, gross profit, gross profit margin, killing, margin, markup, windfall profit, cleanup, quick buck, accumulation |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | win, winnings |
| Type of | financial gain |
Examples of profits
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For all of 2010, profits climbed 29 percent, the biggest annual gain since 1948.
From the bloomberg.com
The division contributed roughly one-third of 2006 revenues and half of profits.
From the forbes.com
This trend pushed MasterCard's third-quarter profits up sharply from a year ago.
From the forbes.com
Only the revival of the U.S. economy can ensure a full-fledged profits recovery.
From the businessweek.com
At the same time, much of the nontech sector saw profits fall in the late 1990s.
From the businessweek.com
As GE has cut prices, profits from dishwashers and other appliances have fallen.
From the businessweek.com
Pay attention, too, to the impact of rising long-term interest rates on profits.
From the businessweek.com
The chipmaker saw profits dragged down by its money-losing memory-chip business.
From the businessweek.com
In its most recent quarter, Amazon's profits surged 115% on a 39% jump in sales.
From the businessweek.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...
