n. Advancement; improvement.n. Any advantage; accession of good from labor or exertion; the acquisition of anything valuable, corporeal or intellectual, temporal or spiritual.n. 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.n. Synonyms Benefit, Utility, etc. (see advantage), service, welfare, behalf, behoof, weal, good.n. Revenue, etc. (see income), return, avails.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.