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.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
- noun. 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.
- intransitive verb. To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
- intransitive verb. To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
- noun. the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- noun. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- verb. make a profit; gain money or materially
"The company has not profited from the merger"
- verb. derive a benefit from
"She profited from his vast experience"
Synonyms
gain, earnings, lucre, net, profits, benefit
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in profit:
Common word forms
profits, profited, profiter, profiting, profitted, profitter, profitable, profitless
Words from these letters
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