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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Gainage :: Gainage (v. t.) The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself..
Improve :: Improve (v. t.) To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means..
Incapable :: Incapable (a.) Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government..
Chevisance :: Chevisance (n.) A bargain; profit; gain.
Use :: Use (v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.
Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share..
Altarage :: Altarage (n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes..
Frustrate :: Frustrate (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Catch :: Catch (n.) That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish..
Pern :: Pern (v. t.) To take profit of; to make profitable.
Avaiably :: Avaiably (adv.) In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.
Badgering :: Badgering (n.) The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
Commodity :: Commodity (n.) Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness.
Drawback :: Drawback (n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature..
Emblement :: Emblement (n.) The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement..
Fructuary :: Fructuary (n.) One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything..
Improvable :: Improvable (a.) Capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
Avaunce :: Avaunce (v. t. & i.) To advance; to profit.
Increase :: Increase (v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
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