(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ 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 ~s of ?3.5 million...
You can improve your chances of ~ by sensible planning...
? loss
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2.
If you ~ from something, you earn a ~ from it.
Footballers are accustomed to ~ing handsomely from bonuses...
The dealers ~ed shamefully at the expense of my family.
VERB: V from/by n/-ing, V
3.
If you ~ from something, or it ~s you, you gain some advantage or benefit from it. (FORMAL)
Jennifer wasn’t yet totally convinced that she’d ~ from a more relaxed lifestyle...
So far the French alliance had ~ed the rebels little...
Whom would it ~ 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 ~ in the Louvre.
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