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Definition of Margin of profit
1. Noun. The ratio gross profits divided by net sales.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Margin Of Profit
Literary usage of Margin of profit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"In fact, much more, because the factory cannot now earn ten per cent, a year.
When even the little margin of profit which is now secured by the capitalist ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In ordinary times those engaged in arbitrage operate with a very small margin of
profit. The great improvement ¡n postal, telegraphic and telephonic ..."
3. ...Introduction to Business Organization by Samuel Edwin Sparling (1906)
"In the earlier stages of our industrial movement, business was done on a wider
margin of profit, and economy and carefulness were not so important as ..."
4. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1901)
"Last year the fifty-four British fire offices paid in losses and ordinary expenses
94.6 of their premiums, leaving a margin of profit of less than 5| per ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
""Make the margin of profit large, and some fool is bound to come up who will want
to give half of it away." The net-price system has been built up with too ..."
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