How To Use Profit In A Sentence

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
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.
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.
At present, power is very high orders, to improve gross profit margins.
And when they have done ye wrang, even when ye hae gotten decreet of spulzie, oppression, and violent profits against them, what better are ye? The Waverley

You should need some extreme persuasion - far more than the directors say-so in the accounts - to decide that a company bleeding cash might be turning a profit.
Figures for income, gross profit, salaries, motor expenses, drawings etc are fed into the Revenue computer system.
The committee submitted guidelines that applied to off-air recording by nonprofit educational institutions.
The RV maker last month posted its third-straight quarterly profit, topping Wall Street forecasts, as motor home deliveries rose.
The final proposals were a rather unsuccessful compromise between the need for profitability and the demands of local conservationists.
One of the problems with this kind of pricing is that it has a tendency to hammer the less profitable stores or chains, such as Borders. September « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
The air time is sold by broadcast bottom feeders who could care less about anything beyond profit margins.
The company profits grew by 5% last year.
Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips, posted a 76 % drop in profits for the second quarter.
When prices fall, commodity producers can maintain profitability by cutting costs or increasing output.
Many people confuse the workings of capitalism that lead to lower costs and greater profits with free trade.
The company reported strong profit margins in its fourth quarter results, although revenues were below expectations.
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?
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
They closed down after years of low profits.
Competitors have been able to cherry pick the profitable areas, such as business mail. Times, Sunday Times
They buy paintings at auctions, mark them up and then resell them at a vast profit to collectors.
The improvement has been across the board, with all divisions either increasing profits or reducing losses.
The more customers that sign up, the more profitable this company becomes, since it earns interest on escrowed payroll taxes from customers.
He would much rather be judged on whether share prices continue to rise or fall ahead of a bid or profit warning.
Underlying all decisions about subcontracting is the desire to make the entire project profitable.
If it should be objected by any that though he did not himself burden them, yet, being crafty, he caught them with guile, that is, he sent those among them who pillaged them, and afterwards he shared with them in the profit: "This was not so," says the apostle; "I did not make a gain of you myself, nor by any of those whom I sent; nor did Titus, nor any others -- We walked by the same spirit and in the same steps. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Rapid market growth and sector under-capacity encouraged Pilkingtons to expand and attracted new entrants to the marketplace without adverse effects on profits.
For the 1999-2000 school year EF cashed in some of its stock donated from start-ups and put $325,000 to work for the nonprofit.
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
The disappointing profits are due to unfavourable currency translations.
Record profits in the retail market indicate a boom in the economy.
It is also the first provider to offer a with-profits investment option.
The inequity of allowing windfall profits to be appropriated by private landholders can thus be demonstrated more clearly than in George's day.
His Australian hosts piled on more pressure yesterday, saying that sweetheart deals that allowed corporations to dodge tax in countries where they made profits amounted to theft. Times, Sunday Times
A considerable amount of tax collection is now done, in effect, by casinos; rather than raise taxes to pay for services, legislatures legalize gambling and then take a rake-off from the profits earned by private casino companies. The Sack of Washington
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
It's a clever business tactic: Not only is the donation tax-deductible, but participating nonprofits bring in their lists, and shoppers are incentivized to buy, knowing the profits go to worthy causes. Artful Style on the Bowery
All we have to do is take malpractice out of the hands of private, for-profit attorneys.
The supply line is the top line of the triangle and represents the overbought side of the market, when investors are going out taking profits with them.
If you strike it rich, you'll probably "reinvest" your profits in another turn of the wheel. Investing, After The Bubble Making It Back
Directory assistance provider Conduit said it had made a profit after tax in its last quarter, three months ahead of expectations.
It just shows that capitalists will turn to anything to make profits.
The investment banking arm has delivered strong profits growth in recent years by pushing both its clients' and its own capital into commodities and currency speculation. Times, Sunday Times
You could make a windfall profit - or you might suffer an exchange-rate loss if you encash those assets when the valuation currency is weak against your base currency.
One of his idiosyncrasies was a faith in coffee as a panacea; and I heard that while sickening he deluged himself with that beverage, to what profit let physicians say. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
Massive investment in research and development; Put in place an industrial policy that prepares for the future and reduces the risks of delocalization; Support small and medium-sized businesses through the creation of regional participation funds and by reserving for them a percentage of public contracts; Give priority to business investment by lowering tax where the profit is reinvested and increasing it where it is distributed to shareholders. Archive 2007-02-01
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A product manager is responsible for product profitability.
Both industries are able to transfer intellectual property around the world, making it easier to justify recording profits in different countries. Times, Sunday Times
This is an unprofitable business and it is not confined to Britain's biggest supermarket chain.
Throwing my heart monitor out the window I plumped (no pun intended) for the dessert of fresh profiteroles served with butterscotch sauce.
What Chinese traditional medicine has profit to and larynx?
In a reply to a correspondent you further elaborate that the rate of profit is being equalized throughout the entire economy.
The use of subtherapeutic doses of antimicrobial drugs may drive down hog prices and lower profits for the entire hog industry, a new government report says.
Several new businesses began operating during the year and are already trading profitably.
Fashion is far from the only business that puts profit before welfare. Times, Sunday Times
And you are right, since salaries and general common people welfare dropped under retirement pension level (while profits and PIB soared during the 30 past year and more) it is the pensions that should be lovered, that makes sense ... Betanews
A windfall profits tax is exactly how it sounds; it is a higher tax rate on profits that ensue from a sudden windfall gain to a particular company. Ah, gerrymandering. | RedState
With Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, he has created his own pay-per-view series, the profitable 'Latin Fury', which he stocks with his vast array of Mexican and Puerto Rican standouts.
It has cut the final bonuses on its with-profits endowments and pension plans for the second time this year.
Using Companies House and other data, and cross-checking with industry sources, we estimated how each firm's profits were divided among its partners.
Even if it wasn't clear enough back when he assembled his "team of rivals" and welcomed Wall Street into his administration, it has been absolutely clear at least since he capitulated to "counterinsurgent" generals and their civilian enablers, and to health care profiteers, that, whatever he may think and feel "inside," Obama is not one of the "good guys. Andrew Levine: Obama Winter and How to Combat It
The Cuckoo Fair is non-profit-making and benefits a range of local charities.
A working group of nonprofit agencies was set up to conduct the annual negotiations with the State Department.
The singular aim of elite globalization is to maximize profits for international corporations.
Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
Vendors and seamstresses are profiteering from the sale of these items, and those interviewed have said that they are just trying to make a living.
In ruling out a Yes vote from the get-go, Israel conceded immediate defeat in the world body, in the process forgoing a range of tactical advantages it could have gained by signaling qualified support for a resolution and then negotiating to help shape its wording to a text Israel could have profited by backing. Bradley Burston: Ten Reasons Palestine Is Right to Bring its Case to the UN
It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one.
It is also free from paying capital gains tax on profits. Times, Sunday Times
The company profits grew by 5% last year.
We don't have a charter and we don't have pressure from shareholders demanding profits and wanting to see readership figures.
The gossips say the group is being hit by declining advertising revenue and a drop in market share in its important US college market which could result in further profit downgrades once figures are issued.
There is talk of a massive fall in profits and a slump in turnover - talk that some outposts of the empire were simply not performing well enough to survive.
Their game plan is to boost profits by selling more goods at regular price, instead of last-minute markdowns.
Regulation is making banking much less profitable than it used to be. Times, Sunday Times
How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world
(In fact, a 90 percent windfall profit tax on the bailout-created profits of the 19 largest banks would be the ideal way to promote a robust caulker jobs program.) Les Leopold: Clinton's Cash for Caulkers? Not enough Economic Insulation
In good years, profits from the second half more than cover losses from the first half.
The group agreed it was a great idea and formed a registered non-profit society.
The biggest determinant of junk bonds' success is the health of the economy and company profits. Times, Sunday Times
Its total group after-tax profits last year were 60 million. Times, Sunday Times
He'd been running the clinic at a substantial profit for nearly ten years.
Such profits are endangered by the strike by about 500 United Auto Worker members who are demanding a contract with higher wages.
The ETF as envisioned is a great tool for silver investment for those unable or unwilling to buy, carry and store silver but what started as a way to encourage demand is now diverting demand from real silver which would tighten the supply and make us profits. Archive 2008-07-20
Profit is also found in Xenophon, Ovid, Thucydides, Cicero and Virgil. The Volokh Conspiracy » My Top 10 Most Influential Books:
Suffice to say that BECAUSE we can sue employers for injuries and harassment at work, they're not in a position to take wanton liberties with the employees who generate their profits.
Jewish law forbids the use of the name of the holy rabbi for profit.
Meanwhile, the fleet footed and well connected have profited from surging exports, a bubbly urban real estate market and, occasionally, government boosterism.
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Earlier this month, Société Générale said third-quarter net profit fell 31% to €622 million from the year before, undershooting analyst forecasts of €732 million. SocGen to Cut Hundreds of Jobs
The marketers must accept the fact that it will take years to build the business volume that will return profits.
Increased production will, in turn, lead to increased profits.
Audit and tax remain highly profitable but offer little growth. Times, Sunday Times
We do not wish to profit from a film that has demonstrably caused great distress. Times, Sunday Times
In March 2009, Wheeler was hired as a part-time consultant for The MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit organization that provides systems engineering, research and development and information technology support to the government. Video footage shows Wheeler wandering hours before his death
In March 2004, the company announced plans to refit 50 stores and downsize its Big W chain to increase profits.
Business leaders know that fair but stable and competitive after-tax profits go hand in hand with job creation, investment and increased productivity.
If he is rational, he will choose a price that maximizes his profit, the price that equates marginal cost with marginal revenue.
In contrast to the general picture in the technology sector, data storage minnow InTechnology recently had to put out a cautionary note that its profits were likely to be ‘significantly ahead’ of general stock market expectations.
Most news organizations are in retreat, shuttering bureaus and laying off journalists. But the former "Red China News Agency" doesn't need to worry about the inconvenience of turning a profit.
When the marginal profit of the manufacturer is small relative to the retailer, neither strategy was applied by the manufacturer.
This is a hefty blow, considering that it represents half of the already poor profits the company expected to announce for its next interims on 23 November.
Giving them such empowerment is really investing in viable business capable of making long life profits.
Details on profits and dividend payments - as yet undivulged - are relevant, too. Times, Sunday Times
We will ensure that farmers have a strong safety net and can achieve profitability in the marketplace.
Other evidence suggests that large plantation owners were the only segment of the population to profit so greatly. America Past and Present
The F.W. Woolworth Company reported profit margins of 20 percent but actually lowered the wages of salesgirls in its stores, citing the need for belt tightening.
This is good for their profit margins but not healthy brain function - and in any case it can be unlearnt. Times, Sunday Times
The venture turned into a thriving and profitable business. Times, Sunday Times
'gombeen' behaviour will become unprofitable, and eventually legally prohibitive. Irish Blogs
His plan is to establish a nonprofit foundation that would support this kind of community service in exchange for long-term psychotherapy.
The company is expected to report record profits this year.
This second Adam Winthrop, at the age of seventeen, went to London, binding himself as an apprentice for ten years under the well-esteemed and profitable guild of the "clothiers," or cloth-workers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
They had an affiliation with mobsters, drug dealings, illegal profiteers, and more, where they would store money, risk-free and securely, for everyone.
Profits, he said, had been ploughed back into the business, re-equipping the warehouse and expanding the sales team.
What cheeses me off, of course, is that these offers are available only to those who can be provided with a service at minimum cost and thus maximum profit to the service provider.
Investors therefore feel more confident about the outlook for company profits and stock markets.
Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
(A striking example of this hypocrisy was the solicitude displayed by the Russian landowners last year, their efforts to combat the famine which they had caused, and by which they profited, selling not only bread at the highest price, but even potato haulm at five rubles the dessiatine (about 2 and four - fifths acres) for fuel to the freezing peasants.) The Kingdom of God Is Within You
There are growing concerns about a lack of scrutiny and measurement of voluntourism, as more commercial tour operators enter what was previously the realm of non-profit organisations.
The aborigines do hunt bears sometimes, attracted by the high profits.
A ban on this horrendous daily cruelty to thousands of animals would impact on the profits of food producers.
Sportsbridge, a new nonprofit organization designed to promote athleticism for women, had brought the pair together.
Tookey preferred to focus on performance on what he calls a "combined business basis" which he said showed the bank made a £1.7bn profit. The Guardian World News
Regardless of the $4,000 a year paid for cartage, the Blinman mine had made a profit and paid out dividends to its shareholders, the first mine in the Northern Flinders Ranges to do so!
Nuclear power has always needed taxpayer handouts to make it profitable. Times, Sunday Times
They have had a bumpy ride since a profit warning last year. Times, Sunday Times
Farmers are profiting from the new legislation.
Anheuser has posted double-digit profit gains for 20 straight quarters, while its nearest competitors, Coors and Miller, have flatlined.
Richard had a secretarial job at a nonprofit theater-development foundation.
The plan was abandoned, the lot was sold at a profit, and the funds were diverted to another purpose. Christianity Today
Now the company is growing and its profits are climbing. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
In addition, it is a mutual company and profits, if realised from its other businesses, are paid into the with-profits fund.
A French, German, and Italian production that became another unprofitable film for Welles, the film was recently revived in a fully restored print.
Overall, the group is expected to post pre-tax profits of £65m against £75m last time.
They have further hammered bank profits by wiping out the margin made on deposits. Times, Sunday Times
His backup was cement, and he knew exactly what profit margin to expect on it.
TOKYO—Japan Airlines Co. on Thursday raised its full-year net profit guidance by one-third, making faster-than-expected progress as it prepares to relist its shares on the market later this year. JAL Raises Profit Outlook by One-Third
A foreign nonprofit corporation may become a domestic business corporation if the domestication and conversion is permitted by the organic law of the foreign nonprofit corporation.
Changes that define whether piracy is for profit or not have set a threshold that will allow not-for-profit offenders to get off scot-free, Lee said.
There is no heroism in butchery, no heroism in suicide, no heroism in writing that invokes, and profits from, the war you have left behind.
The majority of the firms are turning profits, they pointed out, unlike all those Web sites that went public in the late 1990s and hemorrhaged money.
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The Spanish bank, which has about two-thirds of its loan book in mortgages, earlier today reported a slump in fourth-quarter profit as revenue from lending plunged.
He made a huge profit from the sale of shares purchased in January under the company's stock option program.
‘But this is a very important project for our country, and it would profit everyone involved,’ he insists.
Mr Treuting will have overall responsibility for the growth and profitability of Verio's operations in the Southeast business market.
There are some controls on this but people still try to boost their profit by overcharging on the extras. The Sun
The book became an international bestseller and transformed the company from loss into profit. Times, Sunday Times
Firms have an incentive to enter if the existing firms are earning positive economic profits. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Passing on measly increases to savers isn't the only ploy banks have used to boost profits. Times, Sunday Times
The cow showers blessings on you as any business dealings with milk and milk-products bring profits.
Both groups are exploiting illegal immigrants for profit.
Please specify whether ‘revenues’ is a reference to total income, total turnover, gross profit, net profit or some other measure of income.
Back in July, IFG said its profit was set to double by 2007.
The fletcher's business is profitable, and it even does well during war.
Falling profits in the second and third quarters of 2002 seemed to substantiate the Fed's concern.
These highly profitable companies benefit from a benign business environment while their staff are being squeezed. Times, Sunday Times
No great loss but some small profit.
More importantly to Branson, it meant Virgin were on a far smaller margin of any profit.
Can I be sure of a profit if I invest?
The Royal Bank-backed Tesco Financial Services will also announce its first official profit when it declares its interims this week.
At least with the oilmen, I knew what I was dealing with and they did not even try to hide that they were focused on power, control, profits and sexist, macho gun-toting racist everything. Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Green Energy Boys Not So Different Than the Good Ole Oil Boys
Such housebuilders will always look for quick profits. Times, Sunday Times
It's hard to put a value on a company with large assets and turnover but low profits.
Unprofitable contracts can be ended, and property burdened with onerous obligations disowned.
This step suggested that the most important resource for the exchange of ideas, and the surest to offer the most promising and profitable transnational education, was no longer anglicized Latin but rather rebranded English. The English Is Coming!
Profits fell during the third quarter.
In effect, the bookies would face a levy on profits to help those who are damaged by betting.
They struggled out of the red this year to post modest profits of NZ $6 million.
Analysts cautioned that all the companies involved should remain sober-minded and try to tackle the serious problem of how to maintain market development on a healthy and profitable track.
If you identify to outstanding contribution to profit, proclaim it at your nest team meeting.
The dough is now ready to be used to make profiteroles, gougere, gnocchi or beignets. SFGate: Top News Stories
Another highly profitable niche is the greetings card industry. Times, Sunday Times
But these days, the chief executive of U.K.-based Kingfisher PLC, the world's third-largest home-improvement group, has a problem that no amount of do-it-yourself labor can fix: His company derives nearly half of its profits from continental Europe. CEOs' Message: Fix Europe, Or Else
If she do not gravitate too irresistibly towards that class of New-Era people (which includes whatsoever we have of prurient, esurient, morbid, flimsy, and in fact pitiable and unprofitable, and is at a sad discount among men of sense), she may get into good tracks of inquiry and connection here, and be very useful to herself and others. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
Do firms try to maximize profits? Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
That's because low and falling utilization rates also hurt profit margins, not just once, but twice.
While the children built up an atmosphere of camaraderie, the adults often feuded, competing for the profits of the deal.
The newspaper is believed to have been unprofitable for at least the past decade.
As is the case with for-profit firms, it is reasonable to ask why nonprofit firms exist. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
BBC Worldwide said that the Top Gear children's magazine has become the "biggest partwork property in the UK by volume and is expected to generate a significant profit in 2010/11". Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
His nonprofit corporation, Working Arts, took over responsibility for the center when the symphony board filed for bankruptcy last year.
Glencore's 2,000 employees share in regular distributions of its profits.
Customers are angry that the water companies continue to provide a poor service, while the bosses trouser enormous profits.
Sometimes we feel that we would gladly forfeit the profit in exchange for a neat, clean stall. Christianity Today
She points to the Oscar Party Legs, the ones a drunken Jack Nicholson tried to violate after he won for Cuckoo's Nest, and the understated Nonprofit Fundraiser Legs she wore to Jerry Lewis Telethons, and the fake-tanned State Dinner with Reagan and Gorbachev Legs that the Secretary of State made her cover up with a long hemline, because their shade matched Gorbachev's birthmark. Centipede
We continue to operate in a challenging and extremely competitive microenvironment, which is forcing us to selectively use our balance sheets to win deals by offering our customers favorable terms when we can obtain a profit guarantees. Networking Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
Profits so far this year are in line with expectations, with the residential side trading well. Times, Sunday Times
Prehaps if unemployment continues to grow, which i beleive it will, with these public sector cuts and the increasing emphasise on profit that companies have checkout machines, reducing/combining job posts etc. then we could very well have a revolution. University applications rise as candidates race to avoid higher fees
It's an ingenious hybrid where true believers provide the cannon fodder while an elite cabal of generals, arms merchants, land appropriators, oil prospectors and slave traders, muscle their way into the profits of war.
Before anything approaching a thorough and profitable study of the sounds of the American common speech is possible, there must be a careful assembling of the materials, and this, unfortunately, still awaits a phonologist of sufficient enterprise and equipment. Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation
On a drive around the county's back roads, the sheriff pointed to new house after new house, some with mansard roofs, some with Palladian windows, that he said were built with drug profits.
The profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29%.
Hanratty said the hotel was in turnkey condition which, combined with the profit-earnings ratio, made it a good investment.

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