Definition of profit

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Profit (n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men..

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Vail :: Vail (n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
Infecundous :: Infecundous (a.) Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive.
Profit :: Profit (n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,.
Profitless :: Profitless (a.) Without profit; unprofitable.
Money-making :: Money-making (a.) Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business..
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..
Vantage :: Vantage (n.) superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
Avail :: Avail (n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail..
Gain :: Gain (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.
Lucrative :: Lucrative (a.) Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office..
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..
Preferment :: Preferment (n.) A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church..
Idle :: Idle (superl.) Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock..
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..
Merit :: Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Fellowship :: Fellowship (n.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion..
Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..
Availment :: Availment (n.) Profit; advantage.
Annates :: Annates (n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings..
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