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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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The business generated 2025 sales of $17.4 billion, up 12% on a comparable basis year over year, with operating profit margins of almost 25%.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Since each trading system has its own stops and targets, it is possible that these can still profit without merely offsetting each other.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Unions at other marquee firms like Hyundai Motor and internet conglomerate Kakao are demanding 30% of operating profit, Lim adds.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The point is that profit growth looks too weak for us to still call the stock a promising idea.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Technically all fiction books are fabricated tales written for profit, but I let dude have his moments.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas




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