Dictionary Entry
profit
profit is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
- 3noun
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.
- 4intransitive verb
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
- 5intransitive verb
To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
- 6noun
the advantageous quality of being beneficial
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- 7noun
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- 8verb
make a profit; gain money or materially
"The company has not profited from the merger"
- 9verb
derive a benefit from
"She profited from his vast experience"
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