profit
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
profit/ˈprɒfɪt/
▶noun
- 1 a financial gain, especially the difference between an initial outlay and the subsequent amount earned.
- 2 advantage; benefit.
■ be beneficial to.
– derivatives
profitless adjective.
profitless adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. profectus ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’, from pro- ‘on behalf of’ + facere ‘do’.
'profit' also found in these Oxford entries:
advantage
- asset-stripping
- baker
- bankable
- benefit
- benevolent
- bring
- bunce
- cad
- capital gain
- capitalism
- cash cow
- clean
- clear
- commercial
- commercialism
- commercialize
- compendious
- compendium
- cost-plus
- credit union
- cybersquatting
- dot-org
- earn
- earned income
- entrepreneur
- forestall
- going concern
- golden goose
- good
- grist
- gross
- healthy
- hobby farm
- improve
- invest
- investment trust
- leech
- love
- lucrative
- make
- making
- markup
- milch cow
- money-spinner
- net
- net profit
- non-profit
- not-for-profit
- operating profit
