Lexic.us

Definition of Profit

1. Verb. Derive a benefit from. "She profited from his vast experience"

2. Noun. The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses).

3. Verb. Make a profit; gain money or materially. "The company has not profited from the merger"

4. Noun. The advantageous quality of being beneficial.

Definition of Profit

1. n. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.

2. v. t. To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.

3. v. i. To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.

Definition of Profit

1. Noun. Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. ¹

2. Noun. (dated literary) Benefit, positive result obtained. ¹

3. Noun. (legal) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game). ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To benefit (sb), be of use to (sb). ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive construed with '''from''') To benefit, gain. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive construed with '''from''') To take advantage of, exploit, use. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Profit

1. to gain an advantage or benefit [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Profit

profiled profiler profilers profiles profilin profiling profilings profilins profilist profilometer

profilometers profilometric profilometries profilometry profinite profit (current term) profit-and-loss statement profit-maximising profit-maximizing profit-taking

profit and loss profit and loss account profit margin profit margins profit monger profit sharing profit taker profit taking profit takings profit warning

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