profits

IPA: prˈɑfɪts

something won (especially money)
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Examples of "profits" in Sentences

The term profits should be relatively self-explanatory.
For you ignorant Hillary supporters, these companies are makeing millions of dollars in profits from the Iraq war.
You folks who work for wages think what a company reports in profits is $$ laying around which are stuffed into the shareholders/owners pockets.
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.
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.
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.
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.