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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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Disney makes more money from its theme parks than it does from streaming, but Wall Street sees the latter as the main way the company will grow its profits.

From Barron's

Earnings expectations and profit margins are rising for the “Magnificent Seven”

From MarketWatch

The market for general-partner stakes—investments in a private asset manager that typically let the buyer share in management fees and deal profits—rebounded in 2025 after three lean years.

From The Wall Street Journal

It also reduces depreciation expense and increases reported profit, sometimes by hundreds of millions of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal

Small-business profits, in the aggregate, are still in the black, but growth recently turned negative for the first time in a year and a half, Bowley said, citing Bank of America’s spending data.

From Barron's