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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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Another feather in the cap for value is that, while growth stocks generally lead during periods of slowing or scarce profit, profits are now generally picking up and broadening out.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

The sport and fashion retailer cut its full-year profit guidance as second-quarter sales fell due to pricing pressure and a weak U.S. performance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Dick’s Sporting Goods stock falls sharply after the sports retailer misses second-quarter earnings expectations and reduces its fiscal-year profit outlook.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Companies with such high profits rarely have such small staff - for example, British retail giant Marks and Spencer, which employs over 65,000 people, made £671m in profit last year.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Angry that Mr. Garner was going to make a profit.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Companies with such high profits rarely have such small staff - for example, British retail giant Marks and Spencer, which employs over 65,000 people, made £671m in profit last year.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Deere has continued to generate profits during the slump in the farm economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The commerce group, which also owns Chinese shopping platform Pinduoduo, said net profits declined 12% from the same period of the previous year to RMB27.2 billion, but was above forecasts of RMB27.4 billion, per LSEG.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

All that promise started to wither around 2015, as social media giants gobbled up more and more of the profits that kept earlier hangouts afloat.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

The titans of Wall Street, the world now realized, had spent years racking up profits on the backs of junk home loans.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Collins has profited quite handsomely from her singular access to and conflict with power.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

He claimed the women had profited from selling dozens of his daughter's items at auctions in the US in 2021 and 2023, accusing them of having "deliberately concealed" their sale.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

“During a time when our community was meant to come together to help those in need, Langham Hotels Pacific Corporation profited from other people’s tragedies.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Many of his assets are held in a trust overseen by Donald Trump Jr. The president said Wednesday that he profited on his investment accounts in 2025 because stock markets rallied.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

And this vision had had a certain hold even on the groups who actually profited by each historic change.

From "1984" by George Orwell

A bull call spread involves purchasing a lower-strike VIX call and selling a higher-strike one with the aim of profiting if the index rises.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Each week, I’ll take you inside the latest health trends to help you understand where they came from, who’s profiting and whether they’re worth your money.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Energy majors are profiting also from their trades as oil and gas futures swing between big gains and losses on the war's latest headlines.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

"Imagine flipping through the channels and stumbling on a film starring your deceased son or brother, knowing that someone you do not know or trust is profiting from his image without your input or consent."

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Joe had come up with a scheme for profiting from the arrival of these throngs in his father’s new neighborhood.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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