Definition: 1. The money that you make in business or by selling things, especially after paying the costs involved. 2. The advantage that you get from doing something. 3. The advantageous quality of being beneficial.
Use 'profit' in a sentence:
1. Pretax profit surged almost twelvefold.
2. Profit and dividend growth looks above average for the foreseeable future.
3. He resells the goods at a profit.
4. City analysts forecast huge profits this year.
5. We buy them cheaply and then flog them off at a profit.
6. A cinema and roller rink attracted customers and profit.
7. Profits reached an all-time high last year.
8. Gerber has been running her own for-profit school in southern Florida for 17 years.
9. They sold it easily and made a hefty profit.
10. The shareholders are greedy for profit.
11. The company pays out a large share of its profits in dividends.
12. In order to maximize profit, the firm would seek to maximize output.
13. A movie theatre and roller rink attracted customers and profit.
14. The bottom line for 2004 was a pre-tax profit of £ 85 million.
15. Investments showed a gross profit of 26%.
16. Profit will most likely have risen by about $25 million.
17. The airline hopes to break even next year and return to profit the following year.
18. We are making a damned good profit, I tell you that.
19. Profits really took a dive last year.
20. Do you think that they would forfeit profit in the name of safety?
21. I hope all the hard work will translate into profits.
22. Recent losses have cancelled out any profits made at the start of the year.
23. By my calculation, we made a profit of £ 20 000 last year.
24. Profit is not a dirty word around here.
25. Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24M profit had turned into a $20M deficit.
26. The agency is voluntary and not run for profit.
27. While the stores make big profits, it's the customer who loses out.
28. Last year's profits were virtually wiped out.
29. Last year's profits were swelled by a fall in production costs.
30. Newspaper Web sites can coexist with the newspapers and still bring in healthy profit margins.
31. The charity is non-profit-making.
32. Record profits in the retail market indicate a boom in the economy.
33. We should be able to sell the house at a profit.
34. She salted away the profits in foreign bank accounts.
35. The profits made in the first year have never been matched.
36. Net profit was up 16.1%.
37. Company profits were 5% lower than last year.
38. Future lawyers could study this text with profit.
39. Their profits have fallen by 30 per cent.
40. What level of profit do you envisage?
41. Profits were at the same level as the year before.
42. The group made a pretax profit of $1.05 million.
43. The group had a net profit margin of 30% last year.
44. The firm had shaved profit margins.
45. Profits have risen by 15 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year.
46. Profit from exports rose 7.3%.
47. You can improve your chances of profit by sensible planning.
48. Many local people believe the development will profit them.
49. They had made a clear profit of £ 2 000.
50. The profits growth came on the back of a 26 per cent rise in sales.
51. It yielded a profit of at least $36 million.
52. The company reported a small decline in its profits.
53. The company made a healthy profit on the deal.
54. This year's profits will balance our previous losses.
