Definition of profit

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Profit (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..

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Beneficially :: Beneficially (adv.) In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.
Clearance :: Clearance (n.) Clear or net profit.
Best :: Best (superl.) To the most advantage; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety..
Benefit :: Benefit (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change..
Disadvantage :: Disadvantage (n.) Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good..
Improvement :: Improvement (n.) The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse..
Unprofited :: Unprofited (a.) Profitless.
Derivation :: Derivation (n.) The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence..
Scalp :: Scalp (v. i.) To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account..
Partnership :: Partnership (n.) A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure..
Return :: Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc..
Infecundous :: Infecundous (a.) Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive.
Profiting :: Profiting (n.) Gain; advantage; profit.
Gain :: Gain (v. i.) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress; as, the sick man gains daily..
Disinterest :: Disinterest (n.) Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness.
Fallow :: Fallow (n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land..
Plummy :: Plummy (a.) Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.
Prow :: Prow (a.) Benefit; profit; good; advantage.
Trust :: Trust (n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust..
Pernor :: Pernor (v.) One who receives the profits, as of an estate..
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