profit
IPA: prˈɑfʌt
noun
- (accounting, economics) 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.
- (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
- A surname.
- (property law) Ellipsis of profit à prendre. [(property law) A nonpossessory interest in land which grants the legal right to enter onto another person's real property (real estate) for the purpose of taking from its soil, mines and minerals, natural produce or flora and fauna.]
verb
- (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
- (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
- (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.
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Examples of "profit" in Sentences
- Innovative ideas proffer profit.
- The company's profits nearly quadruple.
- Most communist dictators are profiteers.
- The profitability of the hotel is unknown.
- He is a drinker, a womaniser and a profiteer.
- It does not damage the profitability of the work.
- The move proved to be profitable for the station.
- The magazine was profitable for most of the 1980s.
- The pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable.
- The benefit of the tribute system was a profitable trade.