I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a huge loss/profit/increase etc
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a huge increase in cost
a profit forecast
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The company has cut its profit forecast by £18m to £570m.
corporate profits
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U.S. corporate profits were higher than analysts predicted.
fat profits
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Of course the supermarkets’ aim is to make fat profits .
generate revenue/profits/income etc
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Tourism generates income for local communities.
gross profit
handsome profit
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He managed to make a handsome profit out of the deal.
made a profit
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They made a profit of £140 million.
maximize profit/revenue etc
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The company’s main function is to maximize profit.
net profit (= after taxes, costs etc )
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The net profit was up 16.3% last month.
plough back...profits
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Companies can plough back their profits into new equipment.
posted...profits...sales
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Cisco Systems posted record profits and sales for the third fiscal quarter.
Pre-tax profits
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Pre-tax profits fell 26.6% to £3.1 million.
profit and loss account
profit margin
profit sharing
profits warning
reap the benefit/reward/profit (of sth)
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Those who do take risks often reap the rewards.
sell sth at a profit/loss (= make or lose money on a sale )
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Tony had to sell the business at a loss.
taxable income/profits/earnings etc
windfall gain/profit etc (= high profit that you did not expect to make )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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Bristol Rovers announced an annual profit of nearly £90,000 and disclosed they have £1.3m in the bank.
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Soon sales had increased by 17 percent and the center was turning a $ 111, 000 annual profit .
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But the Newcastle-based computer group Sage has surged ahead by 20p to 454p after a 32% annual profits increase.
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She said the company will report its first-ever annual profit in 1995, and will do even better this year.
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The small annual profits of the Edinburgh and Dundee clubs were interspersed with losses and no dividends were distributed to shareholders.
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Its paging business was booming, and annual operating profits broke the $ 1 billion mark.
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Reckitt &038; Colman also revealed annual profits at the top end of market expectations, but the price slipped 3p to 603p.
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The growers who are crying wolf today about the lack of water will post their annual profits in a few months.
big
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There are big profits to be made in the international exotic bird trade.
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But Arnold Thomas smelled a bigger profit from the up-and-coming developers who were looking to build back-to-backs for the mill-workers.
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Now that the carrier is making big profits , they say it's payback time.
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Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit .
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First, if partially successful, it will lead to a big profits boom for the capitalists.
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A clever financial coup over Executive Life's junk-bond portfolio produced big profits for its acquirer.
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The result: its biggest profit in three years.
corporate
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Consumers, investors and workers have all threatened corporate profit in different ways, with varying degrees of success.
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Interest rates are low, inflation seems whipped, job growth is strong, corporate profits are soaring.
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Restrictions on the repatriation of private and corporate profits and capital were also lifted.
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Meanwhile, private investment will remain strong, propelled by a 14 % increase in corporate profits in 1995.
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Is the goal to maximize corporate profits for the few or to meet all basic human needs and protect the Earth?
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The key issue for corporate profits in the new year will be economic growth.
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Multinational corporate profits and stock-market valuations are up been a comparative salt mine.
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Meanwhile, the corporate profits share of national income continues to be at its highest level since the late 1960s.
gross
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This represents a difference or rather gross profit of 65p per dozen or £14.98 per bird over the same period.
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Sales less cost of sales yields a gross profit of $ 350.
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The possibility of a high gross profit margin. 6.
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Certainly one of the most important and most sensitive variables to be estimated is the gross profit margin.
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However, gross profit was down only £2m to £94m.
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The difference between sales and cost of sales is the gross profit which is distributed as tax and dividends.
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Water Assessment 1992 was an excellent year for oceanographic and water related work, with a gross profit significantly ahead of budget.
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A particular case that I remember was the client's stock calculations geared to achieving the required gross profit percentage.
healthy
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And hospital chiefs are confident the shops will turn in healthy profits that will be used to improve patient care.
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At a time when many chains are losing money, Lechters is turning a healthy profit .
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Burmah Castrol, the lubricants group, was one impressive performer as dealers cheered its healthy profits rise.
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Companies continue to register healthy profits .
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Bought four years ago from Johnson Matthey, it has since trebled turnover and is now making healthy profits .
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So does that add up to conflict for the pubs; healthy drinking verses healthy profit ?
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Both, along with Red Dragon in Cardiff, which he also picked up, were now showing a healthy profit .
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The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work.
high
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Criticism should always be a positive move along the road to high profits .
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Further, the higher the profits , the easier it is to corrupt government agents.
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To achieve the highest levels of profit the Profitboss sets to achieve the highest levels of trust within his team.
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The higher import quota also means greater volume and higher profit margins for other refiners like Alexander&038;.
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It is an essential key for achieving high levels of profit consistently.
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Then compare the maximal profits on each subset, and choose one with the highest profits.
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The connection of status and power with size, rather than with high profits perse, seems fairly self-evident.
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Analysts say private management should mean higher profits at the bank.
huge
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For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy.
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The mortgage trader who could predict the behavior of the homeowners made huge profits .
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They were so cheap that, even with the cost of smuggling them west, Kurzlinger could make a huge profit .
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Chan became successful at investing and was making huge profits within several months.
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They sold low-price share options - and pocketed huge profits as City prices soared.
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In our opinion, what we are seeing in the industry is the unwinding of huge profits .
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This simple notion can make huge profits .
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And she has been criticized for reaping huge profits in commodities trading.
net
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No net profit or per share figures were given.
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MCSNet ended 1993 with a significant net profit .
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Solvay showed a 40 percent fall in net profits in 1991 compared to 1990.
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Arcade had net profit 16. 9 million guilders in its fiscal year ended March on sales of about 398 million guilders.
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The basic rate is 40 percent, of the net profits .
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Fujitsu says it expects to break even in 1993-94, with zero net profit .
pretax
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Eight analysts surveyed Friday had predicted pretax profit of between 130 million pounds and 127 million pounds.
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Macdougall said he lowered his estimate for 1996 pretax profit to 17 million pounds.
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House of Fraser yesterday warned its fiscal 1996 pretax profit would be below expectations as margins declined.
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That means First Interstate managers could reap about $ 300 million in pretax profits cashing in their options.
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Without the proposed issues, pretax profit would come to 496. 43 million ringgit, the circular said.
substantial
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Presumably a substantial profit could be made if the church bought the land and subsequently sold it.
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Like the annexation of Tucson Mall a decade earlier, these three areas could provide a substantial profit for the city.
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He'd been running the clinic at a substantial profit for nearly ten years.
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The company was slow to restructure, and its problems could carry over into another substantial profit decline in 1996.
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Middlesbrough made a substantial profit last season, especially with two good Cup runs, and have an extra Premier League windfall.
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About 20 of the weapons, banned for private import by federal law in 1989, were resold for substantial profit .
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He commanded $ 1m a film, plus a share of often substantial profits .
taxable
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The cash call was accompanied by a statement that taxable profits for last year would not be less than £200,000.
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The previous 12 months saw taxable profits of £13 million.
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Fashion retailer Next was on everybody's buy list as it boosted taxable profits threefold.
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As a result it slipped into a loss of £1.33m in 1988 against a £1.71m taxable profit in 1987.
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For both partnerships and companies all properly incurred expenses of the trade can be offset against revenue when computing taxable profit .
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Companies pay corporation tax calculated on their taxable profits after allowance for interest payments and depreciation.
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So a £100,000 investment immediately reduces taxable profit by £100,000.
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A slump in taxable profits left food distributor Booker down 19p at 420p.
trading
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Derwent is expected to make trading profits of £2 million or so in the year to March.
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At the trading level, profits slipped from I£17.7m to I£16.2m.
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Turnover increased 10 percent to 1,752 million, while trading profits increased 3 percent to 252 million.
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In 1991 the stake in Carnaud-Metalbox contributed about a quarter of total trading profits of £125 million.
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Losses after interest Trading profit was about £110,000, but losses after interest amounted to £2.2m.
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The £949 million provision cancelled out 1992 trading profits of £565 million, down from £789 million last time.
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In 1992, 75% of the Group's trading profits were derived from the sale of spirits and 25% from brewing.
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Trading conditions in many countries were extremely difficult last year, but both spirits and beers increased their trading profits .
■ NOUN
forecast
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Shareholders get nothing more than a bald one-year profit forecast .
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Olivetti shares have tumbled 15 percent since last week as analysts downgraded profit forecasts .
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You can also conduct profit forecasts , identify profitable work and problem areas.
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James Capel has, it appears, lopped £25m from its profit forecast and now expects £165m.
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City analysts immediately slashed their profit forecasts from around £15m to around £5m.
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He added that a downgrading in profit forecasts was normal in a recession.
growth
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Tokyo stock exchange-listed companies are forecasting annual profit growth of just 0.6 per cent between October and March 2001.
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That raised concern that profit growth may be slowing.
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Our skills at managing these unique and complex relationships have helped to fuel expansion and profit growth .
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Wehmiller's pre-tax profit growth , 55 percent to £8.1m in the year to July 31, was almost all from acquisitions.
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These shares had a big run in 1995 and investors seemed concerned their profit growth will slow.
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It is expected that these new launches will, in time, be significant contributors to the profit growth of this business.
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In the case of Dorling Kindersley, there is the prospect of strong profits growth from its existing businesses.
margin
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But his concern for profit margins kept wage levels low and he was intensely suspicious of trade unionism.
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But profit margins were just 1 per cent.
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Executives point to increased regulatory pressures as well as scrawny profit margins on underwriting new state and local government issues.
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Increased international competition almost certainly contributed to holding down profit margins .
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His backup was cement, and he knew exactly what profit margin to expect on it.
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The health ministry has fixed the pharmacists' profit margin at 10 %.
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Beyond those, they cite the high costs of customer disaffection, which drives down both profit margins and market share.
operating
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As a result, it is now being reorganised. Operating profit fell to £10.5m from £11.1m in 1991.
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Up to two thirds of the operating profits of owner-managed companies goes on interest payments, it is claimed today.
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Its operating profits have increased by 20% from £22.5 million to £27.1 million.
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Cost-cutting helped boost operating profits 78% to £904,000 in the six months to end October.
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Terry's, sold earlier this month to Kraft for £220 million, saw operating profits fall 6 percent to £13.4 million.
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This involves, among other things, comparing the level of debt with operating profits as well as with the value of the assets.
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This was after the interest bill surged to £11.5m from £3.8m, negating operating profits .
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But operating profits rose 8 percent to £30.2 million, and Weir Floway contributed £1.97 million.
share
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If real product wages rise more slowly than productivity then the profit share rises.
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Meanwhile, the corporate profits share of national income continues to be at its highest level since the late 1960s.
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If the growth of labour costs exceeds that of productivity, the profit share is squeezed.
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There was virtually no change in the profit share between the mid-fifties and mid-sixties.
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The profit share fell sharply from 1960.
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During the periods when the profit share declined, a definite fall in the output-capital ratio occurred.
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All other things being equal, the smaller the retailing mark-up, the greater the profit share for the manufacturer.
tax
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To do that it would have to make pre-#tax profits of around £60 million.
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Persimmon had a pre-#tax profit of 25 million pounds on sales of 206 million pounds in 1994.
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Pre-#tax profit after these items fell from £4.7m to £3m.
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Pre tax profits for the year ended 31st March 1991, dropped by £1.24m to £2.51m.
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However, its pre-#tax profits slipped by 38 per cent to £1 billion.
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A bill was passed reducing the tax profit level from 50 to 40 percent and 35 percent in agriculture.
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Pre-#tax profits for 1997 were reported as Pounds 41.5m and that year the shares traded between 34p and 46.5p.
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In May the group announced pre-#tax profits of Pounds 9m on turnover of Pounds 197m.
warning
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After the profits warning was announced, the shares had slumped by up to 100p.
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Other companies issuing profit warnings or unexpectedly weak earnings included Hutchison Technology Inc., down 6 to 36 1 / 2.
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Harland's shares rose 15 to 94p compared with 585p before the profit warning .
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Engineering group Wheway dipped 5p to 7p after a profits warning .
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Last year, the shares traded in the 14p to 4p range as the market reacted to takeover rumours and profit warnings .
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Despite earlier profit warnings , the results were worse than expected.
■ VERB
announce
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Bristol Rovers announced an annual profit of nearly £90,000 and disclosed they have £1.3m in the bank.
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In August, the company announced net profit for the year ended June 30 rose 75 percent on increased sales.
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Mount Charlotte Thistle announced its pre-tax profit down to £1.5 million from £29.1 million the previous six months.
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SmithKline Beecham announced that second quarter profit before tax rose by 10% to £254m.
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Northants profit Cricket: NatWest Trophy holders Northamptonshire have announced a net profit of £19,312 for last year.
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Computer, software and semiconductor companies advanced as Lam Research and Lattice Semiconductor announced profits surpassing analysts' estimates.
boost
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Price cuts failed to boost sales so profit margins have been slashed.
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Co. said strength in its trading and investment banking businesses boosted fourth-quarter profit 89 percent.
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That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months.
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John Sculley hoped to boost short-term profits by pricing it at $ 2, 495.
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Fashion retailer Next was on everybody's buy list as it boosted taxable profits threefold.
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A strong dollar boosts exporters' profits by allowing them to lower prices abroad, which makes them more competitive.
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Cost-cutting helped boost operating profits 78% to £904,000 in the six months to end October.
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Lower rates make it cheaper for companies to borrow money, which can boost their profits and stock prices.
earn
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Members benefited from both the restricted entry and competition controls, allowing many of them to earn oligopolistic profits .
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Largely unregulated managed-care organizations earn outrageous profits .
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Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit .
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To make taffy, to advertise taffy, to provide employment, to earn a profit , to inspire Otto Rossler?
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I believe they offer every reason to earn you a profit during the winter months.
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And Liggett reportedly has earned little or no profit for each of the last several years.
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Cash is totally liquid, but earns no profit .
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Operating efficiency: measures of the efficiency with which corporate resources are employed to earn a profit . 4.
fall
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The rise comes against a national picture of rising repossessions, falling profits and poor asset growth at other regional building societies.
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Refining overcapacity and falling profit margins are among the chief reasons, they said.
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With excess capacity and falling profits , firms are likely to cut their investment plans this year.
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In Brussels, the market fell after investors snagged profits following a record-setting run that opened the new year.
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If it falls also on monopoly profits , the total yield of the tax is.
generate
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We know that strategy 2 generates zero profit , and strategy 1 should generate the same zero profit.
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In many cases, a business may not be generating enough profit to take full advantage of these tax benefits.
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Banks are generating record profits and using excess cash to buy out competitors and repurchase their own shares.
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East Midlands Electricity added 1p to 408p after generating a 23% profits rise to £30.3m.
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Stock markets in both countries value the corporate assets that generate these profits relatively cheaply, he says.
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As a result, he said, Unix software and services will increasingly generate higher profits and growth.
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Many universities see their law schools as businesses generating pure profit .
increase
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Sales increased by 12% and profit was up by 28%.
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The logic with margin is that you can leverage your assets to buy additional securities and increase your profits if prices rise.
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Set your team a competition to increase profit levels by 10 percent this week.
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Diminished revenue was reported on the trams, but increasing profits on the lighting side.
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The complaint states that Asarco employed unsafe mining methods to increase the company's profit .
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It is the cutting edge of Hartlepool's economy increasing profits , turnover, employees and training.
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Obviously, firms normally try to increase their profit and to avoid loss.
make
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Barretts &038; Baird made a profit of £180,000 in the year to end-March on a turnover of £117m.
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The mortgage trader who could predict the behavior of the homeowners made huge profits .
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Like most game-machine makers, Bandai sells each Pippin at a loss, hoping to make its profits from the software.
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Chan became successful at investing and was making huge profits within several months.
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It made profits of £5.4 million in the 1990-91 season.
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The owner is being reimbursed for it, we make a profit on it.
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The immediate answer might well be that one is making a financial profit and the other a loss.
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Lois will only make a profit or loss under the second strategy when there are changes in relative prices.
maximize
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Is the goal to maximize corporate profits for the few or to meet all basic human needs and protect the Earth?
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Business, after all, exists to maximize profits .
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On the supply side, firms maximize profits and entry occurs until the marginal firm can only just break even.
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The technicians and experts simply mirror this reality as they squabble over the means to maximize profits for their respective ruling classes.
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He is meticulous in developing, implementing and maintaining systems which minimize inventory and maximize profit .
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But it should come as no shock that the oil industry is out to maximize profits .
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Apple, which disdained cloning until early 1995, instead chose to maximize profit margins.
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Private actors are allowed to make decisions and take actions that maximize their profits and their share of the resources.
operate
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On July 20-21 the Congress approved the lowering of the maximum corporate tax from 50 percent on operating profits to 30 percent.
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Retail operating profit rose 30 % to 32. 7 million.
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An operating profit of £184m enabled 69 % of the interest due on loans to be funded out of turnover totalling £666m.
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Its paging business was booming, and annual operating profits broke the $ 1 billion mark.
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Four units posted double-digit increases in revenue and operating profits .
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But they may have to sell stocks if they fail to raise enough operating profits , he said.
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Last year, Nomura reported operating profits of 7. 938 billion yen on sales of 334. 980 billion yen.
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Daimler said its operating profit in 1995, excluding one-time charges and writeoffs, improved.
reap
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There is nothing so admirable as a man who applies his knowledge with forceful direction and from his efficiency reaps a profit .
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Several predicted that they will be reap higher yields and profits while saving their soil.
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Cricket: Red rose blooms in business David Hopps on how Lancashire reaped record profits .
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Hospitals can reap handsome profits that way.
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Her landlord plans to reap big profits housing spectators.
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And she has been criticized for reaping huge profits in commodities trading.
reduce
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The same result may occur even if the tenant does not consciously reduce his profit margin.
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Lost revenues during shutdown periods are opportunity costs that can temporarily reduce profits .
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But the pay of their employees is an expense which reduces profits , not a source of demand which realizes them.
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The losses of the loss corporation reduce the profits of the profitable corporation.
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However, salary is a cost to the business and therefore reduces profit .
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Several retailers are expected to be takeover candidates as a slowing economy reduces sales and profits , analysts said.
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So a £100,000 investment immediately reduces taxable profit by £100,000.
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Wegener said the acquisition will not reduce the expected profit increase.
report
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Yahoo!, the big Internet portal company, reported fourth-quarter profits in line with expectations.
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For the year ending 30 September, 1992, Quayle Munro reported pre-tax profits of £510,000.
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The company reported its first profit last year and sales have risen sharply.
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Roche will report net profit April 24.
sell
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They had them sub-titled in order to be sold abroad for possible profit .
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They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards.
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But unlike physicians, veterinarians sell -- and profit from -- the drugs they prescribe.
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By 1973 it was in production and selling at a good profit to Jensen for the new Jensen-Healey.
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Above this line standard uplifts for selling expenses and budgeted profit are added to arrive at average selling price.
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Another woman explains how a food co-operative has been set up, buying in bulk and selling at no profit to members.
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They say that relics of Hitler's reign should be destroyed, not sold for profit .
show
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However, it may be some time before the transformation shows itself in bottom-line profits .
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Corel declined to say whether the company would show a profit for the SeptemberNovember quarter.
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Are losses being taken and shown on the profit and loss account or balance sheet?
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First-quarter results, which have been delayed because of the investigation, showed a profit , he added.
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Virgin had shown a profit of more than £11m in the last year.
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Governments, unlike industries, do not have to compete and show a profit !
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Harland &038; Wolff has yet to show a profit , but the future looks good.
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True believers claim these vacant residential parcels not only will pay for themselves, but will eventually show a profit .
trade
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Indeed, the trading profit went nowhere in 2000.
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I drink politically correct, organic coffee cultivated by small farmers who get their fair-\#trading share of the profits .
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Such letters can be traded for a profit .
turn
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Richard could be turning his nightmares to profits , but his dad thinks they may have thrown away a fortune already.
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Of the participating builders in the survey, 66 percent said they turned a profit in 1993.
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But private operators can turn profits only if prices rise radically and rapidly.
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As a result, they turn a profit quicker, Johannesen said.
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These have turned in greatly enhanced profits for the year ending December 31.
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Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends.
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The threat could be used as a safeguard, sure; but it could also be used to turn a further profit .
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Ueberroth turned a multimillion-dollar profit for the Olympics by selling big-bucks sponsorships to corporations.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tidy sum/profit
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In 1899, the mansion cost the tidy sum of $350,000.
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And, if my memory serves me right, you stand to rake in a tidy sum on that.
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Chief Auctioneer, Michael Welch, suggests that silver, brass or other trinkets could well fetch a tidy sum.
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Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds, there should have been a tidy sum.
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He has sold no less than five cars, each one at a tidy profit.
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Nevertheless that blip was long enough for some one to make a tidy profit.
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These represented a tidy sum, not a great fortune but enough for her to be comfortably off.
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Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties, sixties and seventies.
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Would we be right in thinking, a tidy sum?
turn a profit
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And the 1984 Olympics turned a profit of $ 225 million.
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As a result, they turn a profit quicker, Johannesen said.
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Blue chip refers to firms with long track records for turning profits and paying dividends.
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But private operators can turn profits only if prices rise radically and rapidly.
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It plans to turn a profit by the end of 2002.
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Of the participating builders in the survey, 66 percent said they turned a profit in 1993.
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Q: Will Wired turn a profit next year?
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Very few firms can turn a profit by selling just once and then scurrying out of town.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the profits from the auction will go to cancer research.
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For the first time, the company's annual profits were over $1 million.
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There's no profit to be found in lying.
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They don't care who they sell weapons to. All they are interested in is profit .
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They made a huge profit when they sold the business.
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We aim to increase our profits by at least 5% every year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the pre-tax level, profits were down 90.0% at £160,000.
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If an extension is not obtained subsequent profit costs may be deferred.
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In Marx, profit is the consequence of exploitation, not a return to entrepreneurial risk-taking activity.
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Of course, Super Show is not about haute couture, but about haute profits.
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Pre-tax profits, excluding an accounting change, fell by 35% to £185m.
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The answer is that firms will want to use the most efficient technique because it yields the greatest profit .
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The Profitboss encourages unconventional ways of making profit , encouraging his people to be creative and take initiative.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tidy sum/profit
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In 1899, the mansion cost the tidy sum of $350,000.
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And, if my memory serves me right, you stand to rake in a tidy sum on that.
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Chief Auctioneer, Michael Welch, suggests that silver, brass or other trinkets could well fetch a tidy sum.
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Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds, there should have been a tidy sum.
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He has sold no less than five cars, each one at a tidy profit.
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Nevertheless that blip was long enough for some one to make a tidy profit.
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These represented a tidy sum, not a great fortune but enough for her to be comfortably off.
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Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties, sixties and seventies.
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Would we be right in thinking, a tidy sum?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the end, the stocks soared and everyone profited.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Allowing insiders - ie, better-informed people - to profit from trading means that share prices reflect information more quickly.
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As long as he was winning, readers could profit .
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Investors buying these new issues also profited handsomely.
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It profited from their energy and their accumulated capital.