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
- Tax the oil companies 120 billion in profit is a joke when they don't spend anything for alternate energy
- It all boils down to ratings/commercial ad rates which - as is the case with the for-profit health industy - means profit$.
- That would be an increase of 13.3% year-on-year for the second half and a 60% increase in profit from the first half to the second.
- Taking your hobby company to $100,000/year in profit is the same thing as holding 5% of a company that makes $2 million a year in profit.
- Ford made a pre-tax profit* in each of its operating regions, but the news was especially encouraging in North America, where it recorded an operating profit of $1.2 billion, a $3.2 billion improvement from a year ago.
- If the state averages $100,000,000 in profit from the stores per year, what does it matter if it gets $100,000,000 from the stores or from a special sales tax on booze sold by private individuals that balances out to $100,000,000?
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