What (who) is Profit - definition
profit
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Profits; Quaestuary; PROFIT; Porfit; Profit (disambiguation)
I. n.
1.
Gain, produce, emolument, return, avails.
2.
Advantage, benefit, service, weal, utility, accession of good, improvement, advancement.
II. v. n.
1.
Improve, gain, advance, make improvement, gain advantage.
2.
Bring good, be of use or advantage.
Profit
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For the purposes of constructed value in an antidumping duty investigation or review, the profit used is the profit normally earned by a producer, from the country of export, of the same or similar product as that under investigation. By statute, the amount of profit shall not be less than 8 percent of the sum of general expenses and cost.
profit
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(profits, profiting, profited)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A profit is an amount of money that you gain when you are paid more for something than it cost you to make, get, or do it.
The bank made pre-tax profits of ?3.5 million...
You can improve your chances of profit by sensible planning...
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2.
If you profit from something, you earn a profit from it.
Footballers are accustomed to profiting handsomely from bonuses...
The dealers profited shamefully at the expense of my family.
VERB: V from/by n/-ing, V
3.
If you profit from something, or it profits you, you gain some advantage or benefit from it. (FORMAL)
Jennifer wasn't yet totally convinced that she'd profit from a more relaxed lifestyle...
So far the French alliance had profited the rebels little...
Whom would it profit to terrify or to kill James Sinclair?
VERB: V from/by n, V n, it V n to-inf
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Profit is also a noun.
The artist found much to his profit in the Louvre.
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Pronunciation examples for Profit
1. profit.
Uber-Worked and Underpaid _ Trebor Scholz _ Talks at Google
2. for-profit or non-profit,
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3. non-profit-making Not-for-profit.
Confessions of a Corporate Insurgent _ Gib Bulloch _ Talks at Google
4. by profit.
Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change _ George Marshall _ Talks at Google
5. called profit.
The Finite and Infinite Games of Leadership _ Simon Sinek _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Profit
1. Profit multiples are the ratio between a company‘s market capitalization and its annual profit.
2. Advertisement But the worst problem is that profit multiples are calculated based on past profit.
3. A "windfall profit" is a technical term denoting a profit made by someone else.
4. The adjusted operating profit from continuing operations was '4;Ł1m, up from no profit.
5. Why not encourage non–profit seed companies, management consultants, travel companies, water companies, even non–profit training companies?