Profit

What do we mean by profit?

An advantageous gain or return; benefit. noun

Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value. noun

To make a gain or profit. intransitive verb

To derive advantage; benefit. intransitive verb

To be beneficial to. intransitive verb

To benefit; advantage; be of service to; help on; improve; advance.

To make improvement; improve; grow better; make progress, intellectually or morally: as, to profit by reading or by experience.

To gain in a material sense; become better off or richer: as, to profit by trade or manufactures.

To be of use or advantage; bring good.

Advancement; improvement. noun

Any advantage; accession of good from labor or exertion; the acquisition of anything valuable, corporeal or intellectual, temporal or spiritual. noun

Specifically, the advantage or gain resulting to the owner of capital from its employment in any undertaking; the excess of the selling price over the original cost of anything; acquisition beyond expenditure; pecuniary gain in any action or occupation; gain; emolument: in commerce commonly used in the plural. noun

Synonyms Benefit, Utility, etc. (see advantage), service, welfare, behalf, behoof, weal, good. noun

Revenue, etc. (see income), return, avails. noun

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument. noun

Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit noun

To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid. transitive verb

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance. intransitive verb

To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good. intransitive verb

Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. noun

Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.

Benefit, positive result obtained.

In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).

Words that are spelled similarly to profit:
profit, prosit, probit, profil, profi, profet, profin, proffit, profis, promit, profitt.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word profit:
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Words that rhyme with profit:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe profit:
net, gross, own, total, more, private, little, non, much, maximum, for, small, economic, personal, handsome, average, greater, reasonable, annual, considerable, clear, fair, expected, normal, greatest, substantial, immediate, extra, quick, financial, less, additional, pecuniary, potential, pure, possible, tax, commercial, actual, larger, enormous, nice, highest, term, enough, huge, marginal, tidy, taxable, excess, sufficient, modest, corporate, largest, overall, mutual, satisfactory, immense, yearly, monetary, healthy, moderate, minimum, pretax, monthly, joint, legitimate, apparent.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective profit:
organizations, organization, sharing, sector, corporation, institutions, organisations, hospitals, making, corporations, companies, agencies, basis, firms, organisation, company, groups, association, entities, institution, agency, status, businesses, group, enterprises, providers, business, analysis, associations, foundation, use, hospital, entity, schools, enterprise, centers, maximizing, facilities, firm, sectors, services, chains, maximization, condition, activities, center, purposes, industry, homes, seeking, housing, subsidiary, chain, loss, ventures, programs, equilibrium, curve, items, venture, plans, colleges, relationships, institute, hmos, taking, foundations, industries, curves, management, developers, universities, facility, operations, subsidiaries, motive, boards, counterparts, ratio, consortium, generating, frontier, marketing.

Consonant match to profit:
prophet, proffit, proffitt, profitt, proof it.

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