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Meaning profit meaning

What does profit mean?
Definitions in simple English

profit Noun

— A profit is money made that is over the total amount spent on the thing being sold.

profit Verb

— If someone profits from something, they benefit from it; they gain from it.

profit

— noun (= net income) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) — verb make a profit; gain money or materially The company has not profited from the merger — verb (= benefit) derive a benefit from She profited from his vast experience — noun the advantageous quality of being beneficial

Synonyms profit synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as profit?

profit English » English

gain benefit advantage interest use earnings income utility yield revenue good earn win proceeds avail lucre gains usefulness return net income get beneficial advantageous value profits net profit merit make a profit financial gain accrue worth winnings wages surplus reach net emolument convenience asset woo victory turn a profit take advantage service selfishness secure returns result recruit recompense

Topics profit topics

What do people use profit to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Make profit
Work and occupation Finance Accumulate wealth

Lose wealth

Conjugation profit conjugation

How do you conjugate profit?

profit · verb

Examples profit examples

How do I use profit in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Arms industry yelds a profit but also suffering.
It is still possible to make a profit when prices are falling.
The rise in house prices enabled him to sell his house at a big profit.
I made a good profit by selling my car.
He thinks of everything in terms of profit.
Net-profit comes to 10 million dollars every year.
In a word, he gained much profit.
As shown above, it is possible to obtain ample profit and customers with truly simple know-how that anyone can do!
Human society is a function of all humanity, those who profit most from it should pay the most for the benefit they gain, of course being greedy, they just want more.
You have to create problems to create profit.
I barely make any profit now.
Production is carried on for profit, not for use.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
You must not think about your immediate profit only.
The profit will amount to three million dollars.
Net profit for the period is estimated at 5 billion yen, largely unchanged from the previous one.
One won't profit by an insincere gift.
Strive for profit above all.
Strive for profit and pursue nothing else.
What was your net profit last year?
They netted a good profit.
How to profit by this book as much as possible?
The records of our company show a large profit for the year.
We can't lower the prices any further and still make a profit.
You made a profit.

Movie subtitles

The profit-sharing bribes from the N.A.C.
The profit we were making there, I can double that. I can pay you back.
With the first profit!
I'm entitled to a small profit.
Profit by my experience.
You could take a few lessons and profit nicely.
Where they make a profit, there is their motherland.
For profit, and profit only.
I expect a very fancy profit out of it.
If you want to take advantage of profit our shores obey my orders and no more back!
He bought it the day following his appointment to the Senate and is using his privileged office for his own personal profit!
Paine accuses Smith of introducing a boys camp bill for his own profit!
He'd laid plans to make an enormous profit out of the nickels and dimes scraped together by the boys of this country.
The profit we were making there, I can double that.
You could make a handsome profit on your stock.
I gotta make a little profit.
No profit in wool these days!
It's a wonder we make a profit at all.
Do I make a profit or loss?
You see, Mr Deeds, the opera is not conducted for profit.
And if you succeed in bringing this good news to your cousin you hope to profit to some extent.
You're taking all the profit out of crime.
But this one doesn't pay your wages in advance and get his profit afterwards. This one takes his profit first. And you get what's left to divvy up among you.
When a kid owes me money, that makes me money. Now instead of paying a catcher 20 bucks, I got one for free. It's all profit.
Then I'll take all the profit for myself.
It is he who keeps the privileges of those who profit.
We will sell at a profit of a half a million in gold.
I don't know women were such poor wretches. that there's always some man around to profit by their mistakes.
What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world?
He will refuse to misrepresent his product. He will scorn unmerited profit.
You see, not only will I derive a handsome profit.. From the medical formula you invent and endorse. But I shall also, be using your name as a slogan.
Five beautiful creatures depended on me, all at one time, for their pleasure. and profit.
I'm hardly making a profit as it is.
My parents ran a grocery that averaged. an annual profit of 5,000 francs.
You might be surprised. You could take a few lessons and profit nicely.
Well, there ain't no profit in chasing kids.

News and current affairs

Second, drug development is geared toward maximizing profit, not social benefit, which skews efforts directed at the creation of medicines that are essential to human welfare.
The sport and its fans will certainly profit if it does.
By eliminating barter and requiring monetary payment, we curtailed their opportunities to profit at the state's expense.
In addition, government spending was on the rise, labor unions were becoming more militant, policies to control pay kept breaking down, and profit expectations were falling.
Here, the pivot to the people includes the American people: the dynamism, creativity, and resources of American business and non-profit organizations already engaged around the world.
There were no market prices, no published profit-and-loss statements, and no independent analyses.
Business is motivated by profit; it is not designed to safeguard universal principles.
Moreover, the digital revolution in media has elevated the role of business news, one of the few profit centers for print and broadcast journalism in many countries.
And, with trillions of dollars swirling around global financial markets, this predictability creates a fat target, with investors willing to make massive bets when they are pretty sure they are right, even if the profit per dollar is small.
Corporate contracts place the profit-oriented legal person at the center of the transaction and bind all of its stakeholders.
Non-governmental and non-profit civil contracts bind people together for communal, religious, social, and political activities.
But until now drug companies had largely ignored Ebola, because there appeared to be little profit in developing a drug for populations that could not afford to pay for it.
In order to reach that goal, we need business leaders with the vision, skills, and commitment to make a profit and a difference.
In World War II, German corporations were all too willing to profit from the slave labor of those in concentration camps, and Swiss banks were happy to pocket the gold of Jewish victims of Nazi terror.
Even though Wangari lives in Kenya's capital, she is able to reap hundreds of dollars a year in profit from cash crops grown with the help of relatives.
In more prosperous countries, African elites are motivated by a complex interplay of national pride, dietary concerns, and the pursuit of profit.
A debt buyback is something of a Catch 22: to succeed in inducing a haircut, it needs to profit from the default fears that it intends to alleviate.
True, businessmen have tempered their criticisms of Chavez and seem eager to participate in the profit feast brought about by increased consumption.
But the stigma of socialism was stronger than the instinct to make a profit.
Deregulation increased the opportunities for innovation and trading, and for profit.
The real cost of the crisis is not measured by the profit and loss statement of any central bank - or by whether or not the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), run by the Treasury Department, made or lost money on its various activities.
After all, they are ordinary, profit-seeking corporations, just like the IBM of Hitler's era.
It is, after all, unrealistic to assume that all members can profit to the same extent from this hard-line approach; that is not achievable even among the 16 federal German states.
Some of those who brought the world to this perilous point with their toxic financial instruments and unscrupulous speculation may even turn out to profit from these reforms.

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