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From mid-2019 to mid-2020, StarTech paid $30 billion in dividends, amounting to 14% of profits.

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It has pledged to provide the vaccine on a not-for-profit basis during the pandemic and has lined up deals around the world to supply almost 3 billion doses.

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Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman in the New York Times magazine proclaimed that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.

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The first for-profit corporation in the ranking — KeyBank, with 4,800 employees — is No.

Meanwhile, the stock market is at a record high, and corporations like Walmart, Target, and Amazon have seen their profits spike 80% to 100%.

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Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.

She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit.

Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

Albuquerque Economic Development, a private non-profit, estimates the five year growth rate at almost double the U.S. in general.

Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?

Nearly all our great intervales might be irrigated immensely to the profit of their cultivators.

There was a great comparing of papers, and turning over of leaves, by Fogg and Perker, after this statement of profit and loss.

My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?

It means enough not to satisfy them, and to leave the selling price of the things made at the point of profit.

Only I fear they will not profit us much; for if my eyes deceive me not, both are already captured.

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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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On this page you'll find 183 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to profit, such as: acquisition, benefit, bottom line, earnings, goods, and harvest.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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