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US
/ˈpɹɑfət, ˈpɹɑfɪt/
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[ UK /pɹˈɒfɪt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒfɪt/ ]
NOUN
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
VERB
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derive a benefit from
She profited from his vast experience -
make a profit; gain money or materially
The company has not profited from the merger
How To Use profit In A Sentence
- Added to which there is a large increase in the fees receivable in 1994 to a level of almost £123,000 which accounts for the large increase in the gross profit over the previous and subsequent years.
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- So no matter how boneheaded an incompetent manager I am, my department is 100% guaranteed to be profitable as long as I'm good at keeping my receipts?
- Using Companies House and other data, and cross-checking with industry sources, we estimated how each firm's profits were divided among its partners.
- The RV maker last month posted its third-straight quarterly profit, topping Wall Street forecasts, as motor home deliveries rose.
- Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips, posted a 76 % drop in profits for the second quarter.
- The lure of profit from gold and diamonds, as well as from minerals such as coltan, which is used to make mobile phones, have turned eastern Congo into a battlefield. The Guardian World News
- During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
- Mr. Lennon said appraisers can sit down and come up with an inherent commercial value for a patent "based on how much in damages a person could collect, analyzing profitability in the market of a product and how much is sold. Contenders to Line Up for Nortel Patents
- So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
