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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.

Example Sentences

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But “if you can process it efficiently, that discount turns into profit,” said Malek.

From MarketWatch

Ms. Rodríguez, according to sources, siphoned profits through networks of international and domestic businessmen while building PR machinery to sanitize her image.

From The Wall Street Journal

The challenge for Ford and others will be to grow operating profit in a flat market.

From Barron's

Still, given the industry’s history of rollercoaster profits, these figures are worth watching closely.

From Barron's

Now it is Hyundai’s turn to try to turn this money pit into a profit center.

From Barron's