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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Return :: Return (n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc..
Avail :: Avail (n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail..
Clearance :: Clearance (n.) Clear or net profit.
Profit :: Profit (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
Society :: Society (n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society..
Benefit :: Benefit (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
Profiting :: Profiting (n.) Gain; advantage; profit.
Frustrate :: Frustrate (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Improfitable :: Improfitable (a.) Unprofitable.
Suspensely :: Suspense (a.) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent..
Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
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..
Avaiably :: Avaiably (adv.) In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.
Pernor :: Pernor (v.) One who receives the profits, as of an estate..
Inutility :: Inutility (n.) Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects..
Behoof :: Behoof (v. t.) Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use.
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..
Beneficial :: Beneficial (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
Frustraneous :: Frustraneous (a.) Vain; useless; unprofitable.
Merit :: Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
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