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profit

[prof-it] / ˈprɒf ɪt /




Usage

What are other ways to say profit? Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society.

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Scaringe said the company will reach profitability on a per-unit production basis with the R2 this year, but estimated that the company won’t turn an overall profit until closer to 2030.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

"Across the board, I've made enough to pay my staff, my suppliers. But in terms of profit on the business, I've made nothing at all – I've paid no corporation tax for four years."

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Influencers stand to profit persuading men there’s a widespread “masculinity crisis,” the researchers found, noting that 72% of the accounts they analyzed had a stake in testosterone supplements and treatments.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

In private equity, a roll-up has historically meant buying companies, consolidating them to achieve an economy of scale and then flipping the larger entity for profit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The small business they started to profit from their class notes.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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