profit

  • 41profit — / prɒfɪt/ noun money gained from a sale which is more than the money spent on making the item sold or on providing the service offered ♦ to take your profit to sell shares at a higher price than was paid for them, and so realise the profit,… …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 42Profit — 1. Aller Profit ist süss. – Meisner, 44; Körte, 4853; Braun, I, 3372. 2. Des Profits halber geht der Pfaff zum Altar. Holl.: Om profijt gut de paap ten altaar. (Harrebomée, II, 203a u. 160a.) 3. Kleiner Profit und oft ist besser als grosser und… …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 43profit — 1 noun 1 (C, U) money that you gain by selling things or doing business: They sold the business and bought a yacht with the profits. | The profit each day from the snack bar is usually around $. | make (a) profit: The telephone companies are… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 44profit — 01. Our company s [profits] have increased by 20% over the last year. 02. Using the Internet to advertise our products has been a very [profitable] decision. 03. Josh Billings once remarked, Take all the fools out of this world, and there wouldn… …

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  • 45profit — [[t]prɒ̱fɪt[/t]] ♦♦ profits, profiting, profited 1) N VAR 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… …

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  • 46profit — nm., gain, intérêt, bénéfice ; lucre ; usage, longue durée : PROFI (Albanais.001, Chambéry, Saxel.002). E. : Gale. A1) petit profit profit // détournement profit illicite, coulage // resquille profit causé par les employés : grata <gratte>… …

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  • 47profit — n. & v. n. 1 an advantage or benefit. 2 financial gain; excess of returns over outlay. v. (profited, profiting) 1 tr. (also absol.) be beneficial to. 2 intr. obtain an advantage or benefit (profited by the experience). Phrases and idioms: at a… …

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  • 48profit — 1. noun 1) the firm made a profit Syn: (financial) gain, return(s), yield, proceeds, earnings, winnings, surplus, excess; informal pay dirt, bottom line Ant: loss 2) we could gain no profit by continuing …

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  • 49profit by — phrasal verb profit from or profit by [transitive] Word forms profit from : present tense I/you/we/they profit from he/she/it profits from present participle profiting from past tense profited from past participle profited from a) profit from/by… …

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  • 50profit*/*/*/ — [ˈprɒfɪt] noun I 1) [C/U] money that you get when you sell something for a price that is higher than the cost of making it or buying it Ant: loss Investors have made a 14% profit in just 3 months.[/ex] the practice of killing whales for profit ( …

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