Profit
['prɒfɪt] or ['prɑfɪt]
Definition
(noun.) the advantageous quality of being beneficial.
(verb.) make a profit; gain money or materially; 'The company has not profited from the merger'.
(verb.) derive a benefit from; 'She profited from his vast experience'.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Gain, produce, emolument, return, avails.[2]. Advantage, benefit, service, weal, interest, welfare, behoof, behalf, account, utility.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gain, emolument, advantage, avail, acquisition, benefit_service, use,improvement
ANT:Loss, detriment, damage, disadvantage, waste
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Definition
n. gain: the gain resulting from the employment of capital: the difference between the selling price and the first cost: advantage: addition to good or value: benefit: improvement.—v.t. to benefit or to be of advantage to: to improve.—v.i. to gain advantage: to receive profit: to improve: to be of advantage: to bring good.—adj. Prof′itable yielding or bringing profit or gain: lucrative: productive: advantageous: beneficial.—n. Prof′itableness.—adv. Prof′itably.—ns. Prof′iter; Prof′iting profit gain or advantage: (B.) progress or proficiency.—adj. Prof′itless without profit gain or advantage.—adv. Prof′itlessly.—n. Prof′it-shar′ing a voluntary agreement under which the employee receives a share fixed beforehand in the profits of a business.—Profit and loss gain or loss arising from buying and selling &c.—Net profits clear gain after deduction of all outlay and expenses; Rate of profit the amount of profit compared with the capital used in its production.
Checker: Rupert
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of profits, brings success in your immediate future. See Gain.
Checker: Sophia
Examples
- This victory gained, Rokesmith made haste to profit by it, for he saw how woefully time had been lost. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then why not have it: especially when our friend Miss Jenny here would profit by it too? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This done, Madame would send Désirée out for a walk with her _bonne_, and profit by her absence to rob the robber. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If the profit is less, mercantile employments will draw capital from the improvement of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I put up $800, and was to get half of the profits, and each of them one-quarter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The profits of stock seem to be very little affected by the easiness or difficulty of learning the trade in which it is employed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The profits of mining would for some time be very great, and much above their natural rate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If I were weak now, what had I profited by those mercies? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I profited of this time to rest for a few hours. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Perhaps you may remember some one saying at the beginning of our discussion that the unjust man was profited if he had the reputation of justice. Plato. The Republic.
- The harmless Twemlow profited by the conditions entered into, though he little thought it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Like one who had profited well by lessons learned from yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Most of us have at times profited by the heat of condensation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- McClernand told me on that day, the 6th, that he profited much by having so able a commander supporting him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Profiting then by the surprise of his spectators the showman began to offer them his magic portfolio at the price of five sous for the small size and ten for the large. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- There is nothing great about you, yet you are above profiting by the good nature and purse of a man to whom you feel absolute indifference. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I don't believe there is any gentleman in this university who is capable of profiting by such an action. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And I can't be happy in working with you, or profiting by you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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