profit

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  1. noun An advantageous gain or return; benefit.
  2. noun The return received on a business undertaking after all operating expenses have been met.
  3. noun The return received on an investment after all charges have been paid. Often used in the plural.
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  • Mustafa said the profit was the first positive record in the company's financial performance after the past several years. —  The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • Absorbing this profit has been a crime against Humanity also.
  • Anyone who tells you that the current plan will pay for itself or make a profit is a liar, a fool or both. —  One Thousand Reasons
  • According to the economics textbooks, this profit is a just reward for the "risk" they take in making an investment. —  Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
  • A Web Business That's Working It's been said that during the depression, the only industry that turned a profit was the enterta ... come on do not be so naive ', situations such as these often see kickbacks from ... —  Furniture Today Business News
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income ·  gain ·  cost ·  investment ·  wealth ·  benefit ·  sale ·  growth ·  tax ·  expense ·  return ·  debt

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profit:   profits ·  profited ·  profiting
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin prōfectus, from past participle of prōficere, make progress, to profit : prō-, forward; see pro-1 + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English profit, profet, proffit, proffet, prophete = Dutch profijt = G. Swedish Danish profit, from Old French profit, French profit = Italian profitto, advantage, profit, from Latin profectus, advance, progress, growth, increase, profit, from proficere, past participle profectus, go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful: see proficient. Cf. profect, directly from the L. The Spanish provecho = Portuguese proveito, profit, is from Late Latin provectus, advancement, from Latin provehere, past participle provectus, carry forward, advance: see provection.
  2. from Middle English profiten, profyten, proffeten, prophiten, from Old French profiter, French profiter, profit; from the noun.
 

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