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Webster 1913 Edition
Profit
1.
Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument;
as, a
. profit
on the sale of goodsLet no man anticipate uncertain
profits
. Rambler.
2.
Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
This I speak for your own
profit
. 1 Cor. vii. 35.
If you dare do yourself a
profit
and a right. Shakespeare
Syn. – Benefit; avail; service; improvement; advancement; gain; emolument.
Prof′it
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Profited
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Profiting
.] To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid;
as, truth
. profits
all menThe word preached did not
profit them
. Heb. iv. 2.
It is a great means of
profiting
yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs. Dryden.
Prof′it
,Verb.
I.
1.
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
I
profit
not by thy talk. Shakespeare
2.
To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Riches
profit
not in the day of wrath. Prov. xi. 4.
Webster 1828 Edition
Profit
PROF'IT
,Noun.
1.
In commerce, the advance in the price of goods sold beyond the cost of purchase. Net profit is the gain made by selling goods at an advanced price or a price beyond what they had cost the seller, and beyond all costs and charges. The profit of the farmer and the manufacturer is the gain made by the sale of produce or manufactures, after deducting the value of the labor, materials, rents and all expenses, together with the interest of the capital employed, whether land, machinery, buildings, instruments or money. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.
2.
Any gain or pecuniary advantage; as an office of profit or honor.3.
Any advantage; any accession of good from labor or exertion; an extensive signification, comprehending the acquisition of any thing valuable, corporeal or intellectual, temporal or spiritual. A person may derive profit from exercise, amusements, reading, study, meditation, social intercourse, religious instruction, &c. Every improvement or advance in knowledge is profit to a wise man.PROF'IT
, v.t.1.
To benefit; to advantage; applied to one's self, to derive some pecuniary interest or some accession of good from any thing; as, to profit one's self by a commercial undertaking, or by reading or instruction. In this sense, the verb is generally used intransitively. Applied to others, to communicate good to; to advance the interest of. Brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues,what shall I profit you? 1 Cor.14.
Whereto might the strength of their hands profit me? Job.30.
2.
To improve; to advance. It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.
PROF'IT
,Verb.
I.
1.
To make improvement; to improve; to grow wiser or better; to advance in any thing useful; as, to profit by reading or by experience. She has profited by your counsel.
2.
To be of use or advantage; to bring good to. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Prov.11.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
profit (plural profits)
- Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
- Rambler
- Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
- Rambler
- (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
- Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.
- Bible, 1 Corinthians vii. 35
- This I speak for your own profit.
- Shakespeare
- if you dare do yourself a profit and a right
- (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).
Usage notes
Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative the term loss is correct. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics. Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
total income or cash flow minus expenditures
benefit
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Verb
profit (third-person singular simple present profits, present participle profiting, simple past and past participle profited)
- (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
- Bible, Hebrews iv. 2
- The word preached did not profit them.
- Dryden
- It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.
- Bible, Hebrews iv. 2
- (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
- (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.
Translations
To benefit, be of use to
To benefit, gain
To take advantage of, exploit, use
Derived terms
Terms derived from profit
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Related terms
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin prōfectus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɔ.fi/
Noun
profit m (plural profits)
- profit, benefit
- Il a su tirer profit de ses connaissances.
- He managed to take advantage of his knowledge.
- Il a su tirer profit de ses connaissances.
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈprofit]
- Hyphenation: pro‧fit
Noun
profit (plural profitok)
- profit (total income or cash flow minus expenditures)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | profit | profitok |
| accusative | profitot | profitokat |
| dative | profitnak | profitoknak |
| instrumental | profittal | profitokkal |
| causal-final | profitért | profitokért |
| translative | profittá | profitokká |
| terminative | profitig | profitokig |
| essive-formal | profitként | profitokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | profitban | profitokban |
| superessive | profiton | profitokon |
| adessive | profitnál | profitoknál |
| illative | profitba | profitokba |
| sublative | profitra | profitokra |
| allative | profithoz | profitokhoz |
| elative | profitból | profitokból |
| delative | profitról | profitokról |
| ablative | profittól | profitoktól |
| Possessive forms of profit | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | profitom | profitjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | profitod | profitjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | profitja | profitjai |
| 1st person plural | profitunk | profitjaink |
| 2nd person plural | profitotok | profitjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | profitjuk | profitjaik |
Synonyms
References
- ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6
Norman
Etymology
From Old French profit, from Latin profectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”).
Noun
profit m (plural profits)