Profit

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An advantageous gain or return; benefit.
  • n. The return received on a business undertaking after all operating expenses have been met.
  • n. The return received on an investment after all charges have been paid. Often used in the plural.
  • n. The rate of increase in the net worth of a business enterprise in a given accounting period.
  • n. Income received from investments or property.
  • n. The amount received for a commodity or service in excess of the original cost.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a gain or profit.
  • verb-intransitive. To derive advantage; benefit: profiting from the other team's mistakes. See Synonyms at benefit.
  • v. To be beneficial to.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. Benefit, positive result obtained.
  • n. 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).
  • v. To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
  • v. To benefit, gain.
  • v. To take advantage of, exploit, use.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument.
  • n. Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit
  • v. To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid.
  • verb-intransitive. To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
  • verb-intransitive. To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
  • verb-intransitive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make a profit; gain money or materially
  • n. the advantageous quality of being beneficial
  • v. derive a benefit from
  • n. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
  • Antonym
    loss   
    Verb Form
    profited    profiting    profits    profitted   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    advancement    benefit    improvement    service    avail    emolument    gain    advantage    aid    improve   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Proffitt    Prophet    nonprofit    prophet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    income    gain    cost    investment    wealth    benefit    sale    growth    tax    expense