Definition of profit

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Profit (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.

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Plummy :: Plummy (a.) Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.
Idle :: Idle (superl.) Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
Assessment :: Assessment (n.) A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property..
Profit :: Profit (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
Questuary :: Questuary (a.) Studious of profit.
Mercenary :: Mercenary (a.) Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.
Slipslop :: Slipslop (n.) Weak, poor, or flat liquor; weak, profitless discourse or writing..
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..
Primitia :: Primitia (n.) The first fruit; the first year's whole profit of an ecclesiastical preferment.
Endless :: Endless (a.) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
Emolument :: Emolument (n.) The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary..
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..
Money-making :: Money-making (a.) Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade..
Impropriate :: Impropriate (v. t.) To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.
Useful :: Useful (a.) Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts..
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets..
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine..
Bestead :: Bestead (v. t.) To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.
Getting :: Getting (n.) That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
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