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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Ungainly :: Ungainly (a.) Unsuitable; unprofitable.
Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business..
Profitable :: Profitable (a.) Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession..
Profiting :: Profiting (n.) Gain; advantage; profit.
Endless :: Endless (a.) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
Net :: Net (v. t.) To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation..
Frustraneous :: Frustraneous (a.) Vain; useless; unprofitable.
Pan :: Pan (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly..
Pooling :: Pooling (n.) The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits..
Avaunce :: Avaunce (v. t. & i.) To advance; to profit.
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..
Behoovable :: Behoovable (a.) Supplying need; profitable; advantageous.
Gainful :: Gainful (a.) Profitable; advantageous; lucrative.
Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..
Chevisance :: Chevisance (n.) A bargain; profit; gain.
Vantage :: Vantage (n.) superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
Slipslop :: Slipslop (n.) Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing..
Profitless :: Profitless (a.) Without profit; unprofitable.
Bootless :: Bootless (a.) Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.
Availment :: Availment (n.) Profit; advantage.
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