- 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
goods. - Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences;
benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit, - To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit;
to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
2 . Profit
[ v. i.]
- To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to
gain; to advance. - To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Meaning of 'profit' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . profit
[ v]
Meaning (1): - derive a benefit from
Example in sentence:
She profited from his vast experience
Meaning (2): - make a profit; gain money or materially
Profit motive Expected or actual returns (profits) that motivate business leaders to do what must be done in a business venture.
Profitability ratio Profitability ratio measure of a firm’s financial performance that compares earnings to sales or investments. Two common profitability
Business Profit Business profit is the difference between business income (revenue) and business expenses (costs); the selling price of a product minus all
Operating profit margin reveal The operating profit margin is the profitability of sales, the percentage of a dollar of sales that ends up in operating income after operating expenses.
Profit sharing Profit sharing means paying a portion of company profits to employees as a performance incentive in addition to their regular compensation.
Nonprofit corporations Nonprofit corporations are organizations formed to further the interests and objectives of educational, religious, social, charitable, and cultural groups. No stock is issued, but the members of the organization enjoy the advantage of limited liability.
Gross profit on sales Gross profit on sales is the profit that a company made after deducting cost of goods sold from net sales but before subtracting operating expenses.
Direct product profitability (DDP) Direct product profitability (DDP) is a way of measuring a product’s handling costs from the time it reaches the warehouse until a customer buys it in the retail store.
Customer profitability analysis (CPA) Customer profitability analysis (CPA) refers to a means of assessing and ranking customer profitability through accounting techniques such as activity-based costing (ABC).
Undivided profits Undivided profits is the type of bank capital representing the net earnings of bank that have been retained in the business rather than being paid out as dividends to the bank’s stockholders.