Profits

Word PROFITS
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Pronunciations /ˈpɹɒfɪts/

Definitions and meanings of "Profits"

What do we mean by profits?

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).

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The word "profits" in example sentences

You folks who work for wages think what a company reports in profits is $$ laying around which are stuffed into the shareholders/owners pockets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This morning, Qwest reported earnings of $185 million on sales of $3.32 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008 — an almost 50 percent drop in profits from the same period last year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For you ignorant Hillary supporters, these companies are makeing millions of dollars in profits from the Iraq war. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The biggest challenge for the US equity market is rebuilding sustainable growth in profits from the rubble of the last 5 years of the technology bubble. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The term profits should be relatively self-explanatory. ❋ Darren Dahl (2010)

Looking to today, the Yen may continue its downward slide against its major currency pairs as Japanese investors seek short-term profits from the Japanese stock market. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Congress didn't tell Fannie and Freddie what to do, Fannie and Freddie told Congress what to do as they were the two biggest lobbyists in Washington D.C. Fannie and Freddie didn't go into subprime lending because Congress told them to because Congress was getting incredible lobbying pressure from poor people to increase home ownership rates what a joke, they went into it because that is where the short term profits were. ❋ John R. Talbott (2011)

It seems for the most part at least the Canadian government puts equality, long term stability and rational decision making ahead of short term profits, a rarity in world governing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If there is competition, the market will take care of the short term profits issue and literally everything else cost, quality etc. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When it comes to expanding into frontier markets, companies like Total, Diageo, Chiquita, and News Corp are finding that although they can make short term profits by engaging bending or breaking laws and violating their own codes of conduct, the long term reputational costs can be staggering. ❋ Nathaniel Parish Flannery (2011)

But underneath what remains of India's primary forests - long-term assets - are short term profits in the form of coal, iron ore, aluminum. ❋ Carl Pope (2011)

They see the cost of fine as the price of doing business and make mega short term profits to boost up their the price of the stock shares . ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

The big boys are manipulating the market for short term profits. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Due to its shareholder structure the primary focus of Keystone International is on long term growth rather than short term profits and dividend distributions. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But up until now, the culture of capitalism has said that in order to fulfill this fiduciary responsibility, corporations must maximize short term profits. ❋ Auren Kaplan (2012)

We're realizing from the cable company, we're realizing from Kaplan, and Andy gave you some reason to think that Kaplan's short term profits maybe down, but their long term prospect may be better than that, we're not telling you they are, but they may be.

In addition to, that we have seen some opportunities around the country on a select basis to consolidate some of our title profits centers both on the direct side and on the agency side, and this is a little bit of a follow-up on the integration of Lawyers and Commonwealth at the beginning of the year, where we went to some markets, where we were over represented and did some consolidation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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