Profit Company Made Healthy Costs Year Noun Bre

• a rise/an increase/a drop/a fall in profits
• the company made a healthy profit on the deal.
• profit from exports rose 7.3%
• net profit (= after you have paid costs and tax) was up 16.1%.

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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• a rise/an increase/a drop/a fall in profits
• The company made a healthy profit on the deal.
• Profit from exports rose 7.3%
• Net profit (= after you have paid costs and tax) was up 16.1%.
• The sale generated record profits.
• We should be able to sell the house at a profit.
• The agency is voluntary and not run for profit.
• There isn’t much profit in running a restaurant these days.
2. the advantage that you get from doing something
• Future lawyers could study this text with profit.

Extra Examples

• At whose expense are those obscene profits made?
• Damaged goods mean lost profit.
• Did you make a profit on your house when you sold it?
• He’s only interested in making a quick profit.
• Investors will take the profits.
• Jakob had realized a personal profit of $240 000.
• Profit before tax increased by 40% on last year.
• Profits surged 41% to £13 million.
• The CD generated record profits.
• The company made losses of $500 000 against profits of $750 000.
• The company posted second-quarter profits of $570 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.
• We are continuing our strategy of profit maximization.
• We should be able to sell the piano at a profit.
• a commodity that produced steady profits
• an annual profit of £50 000
• profits accruing to the taxpayer from the sale of property
• profits from property investments
• the pharmaceutical companies’ profit motive
• the potential profits from insider trading
• A luxury product like perfume has a high profit margin.
• Future lawyers could study this case with profit.
• The agency is voluntary and not run for profit.
• The company made a healthy profit of $106m last year.
• There isn’t much profit in running a restaurant these days.

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.