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Emolument :: Emolument (n.) The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary..

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..

Vantage :: Vantage (n.) superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

Tithe :: Tithe (n.) A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges..

Disadvantage :: Disadvantage (n.) Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good..

Badgering :: Badgering (n.) The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.

Gain :: Gain (v. t.) That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase, profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss..

Fructuous :: Fructuous (a.) Fruitful; productive; profitable.

Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court..

Principal :: Principal (n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit..

Avail :: Avail (v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment..

Speculator :: Speculator (n.) One who engages in speculation; one who buys and sells goods, land, etc., with the expectation of deriving profit from fluctuations in price..

Pernor :: Pernor (v.) One who receives the profits, as of an estate..

Slipslop :: Slipslop (n.) Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing..

Clear :: Clear (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit..

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..

Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano..

Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..

Frustraneous :: Frustraneous (a.) Vain; useless; unprofitable.

Benefit :: Benefit (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit..

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