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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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The company relies on high amounts of capital spending to build and equip data centers, raising questions among some observers about its ability to turn a profit and meet relatively high-interest debt obligations.

From Barron's

In the second quarter of fiscal 2023, Micron’s sales declined by 53% from the year before and gross profit margin went deeply negative.

From Barron's

The rare-earth game will haunt China and Africa as environmental remediation eats profits.

From MarketWatch

Joseph Adinolfi and Gordon Gottsegen interviewed six investors who are students or at early stages of their careers and have made tremendous profits by taking risky positions in the stock market.

From MarketWatch

On Zanzibar in Tanzania Mr. Butler-Gallie regards the juxtaposition of faith and profit where a church stands over a cellar that once imprisoned slaves.

From The Wall Street Journal