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Operate :: Operate (v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

Utile :: Utile (v. t.) Profitable; useful.

Lucre :: Lucre (n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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

Common :: Common (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right..

Money-making :: Money-making (a.) Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business..

Gain :: Gain (a.) Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy; profitable; cheap; respectable.

Available :: Available (a.) Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate..

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.

Pan :: Pan (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly..

Proficuous :: Proficuous (a.) Profitable; advantageous; useful.

Availment :: Availment (n.) Profit; advantage.

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..

Behalf :: Behalf (n.) Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.

Profit :: 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..

Questuary :: Questuary (n.) One employed to collect profits.

Fellowship :: Fellowship (n.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion..

Disprofitable :: Disprofitable (a.) Unprofitable.

Net :: Net (v. t.) To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation..

Revenue :: Revenue (n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income..

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