often attributive
1
: a valuable return : gain
2
: the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions
especially
: the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost
3
: net income usually for a given period of time
4
: the ratio of profit for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales
5
: the compensation accruing to entrepreneurs for the assumption of risk in business enterprise as distinguished from wages or rent
profited; profiting; profits
: to be of service to : benefit
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Examples of profit in a Sentence
Noun
The company made a profit this year.
Profits are up from last year.
There was a rise in profits this year.
The profits from CD sales were donated to charity.
The organization is not run for profit.
The film made $1,000,000 in profit.
The book can be read with profit by anyone who wants to understand how the system works.
Verb
It would profit him to take some computer classes.
The company has profited by selling its products online.
He profited greatly from his investments.
The island profits from tourism.
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Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
The stock is up a lot already this year and could be influenced by other factors, such as profit taking.
—Fred Imbert,alex Harring, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Athletes could now profit from their own brands, and the women were no longer merely at the mercy of the N.C.A.A.’s neglect.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Noun
But Ferrari is a high-margin business that generates more than $100,000 in profit per car.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
The stock is up a lot already this year and could be influenced by other factors, such as profit taking.
—Fred Imbert,alex Harring, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
Take Colorado, once a national model of how a state could legalize weed and also profit wildly from it.
—Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Athletes could now profit from their own brands, and the women were no longer merely at the mercy of the N.C.A.A.’s neglect.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Profit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/profit. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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