Profit Costs Company Noun ˈprɒfɪt ˈprɑːfɪt Annual/Pre Tax/Corporate Tax

• annual/pre-tax/corporate profits
• profits before tax grew from £615m to £1 168m.
• a rise/an increase/a jump/a drop/a fall in profits
• to maximize/increase profits

profit

1. the money that you make in business or by selling things, especially after paying the costs involved
• OPPOSITE loss
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• annual/pre-tax/corporate profits
• Profits before tax grew from £615m to £1 168m.
• a rise/an increase/a jump/a drop/a fall in profits
• to maximize/increase profits
• to report/post profits of £50 million
• The club may turn a profit (= make a profit) by the end of the year.
• The sale generated record profits.
• Net profit (= after you have paid costs and tax) was up 16.1 per cent.
• The business recorded a gross profit of (= before you pay costs and tax) £1.45 million last year
• The division's profit margins are being squeezed.
• The directors are driven only by the profit motive.
• The company made a healthy profit on the deal.
• Profit from exports rose 7.7 per cent.
• The radio station earns a profit from its advertising.
• There was little or no profit in the products themselves.
• There isn’t much profit in running a restaurant these days.
• We should be able to sell the house at a huge profit.
• The agency is voluntary and not run for profit.

Extra Examples

• At whose expense are those obscene profits made?
• Damaged goods mean lost profit.
• He's only interested in making a quick profit.
• Investors will take the profits.
• Jakob had realized a personal profit of $240 000.
• Profits surged 41 per cent to £13 million.
• The company started to show a profit in its first year.
• The expected profits have not materialized.
• The goods were sold for profit.
• They closed down after years of low profits.
• a commodity that produced steady profits
• an annual profit of £50 000
• We are continuing our strategy of profit maximization.
• The company posted second-quarter profits of $570 million.
2. the advantage that you get from doing something
• Future lawyers could study this text with profit.

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘advantage, benefit’): from Old French, from Latin profectus ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’, from pro- ‘on behalf of’ + facere ‘do’. The verb is from Old French profiter.