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Noun: profit  prófit
  1. The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
    - net income, net, net profit, lucre, profits, earnings
     
  2. The advantageous quality of being beneficial
    - gain
Verb: profit  prófit
  1. Derive a benefit from
    "She profited from his vast experience"
    - gain, benefit
     
  2. Make a profit; gain money or materially
    "The company has not profited from the merger"
    - turn a profit

Sounds like: prophet

Derived forms: profits, profited, profiting

See also: profiteer

Type of: acquire, advantage, bring in, clear, earn, gain, get, income, make, pull in, realise [Brit], realize, take in, vantage

Antonym: break even, lose

Encyclopedia: Profit