transcription, транскрипция: [ prɒfɪt ]
( profits, profiting, profited)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A profit is an amount of money that you gain when you are paid more for something than it cost you to make, get, or do it.
The bank made pre-tax profits of £3.5 million...
You can improve your chances of profit by sensible planning...
≠ loss
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2.
If you profit from something, you earn a profit from it.
Footballers are accustomed to profiting handsomely from bonuses...
The dealers profited shamefully at the expense of my family.
VERB : V from/by n / -ing , V
3.
If you profit from something, or it profits you, you gain some advantage or benefit from it. ( FORMAL )
Jennifer wasn’t yet totally convinced that she’d profit from a more relaxed lifestyle...
So far the French alliance had profited the rebels little...
Whom would it profit to terrify or to kill James Sinclair?
VERB : V from/by n , V n , it V n to-inf
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Profit is also a noun.
The artist found much to his profit in the Louvre.
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