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Profits   /prˈɑfɪts/   Listen
Profits

noun
1.
The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses).  Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit.
2.
Something won (especially money).  Synonyms: win, winnings.


Profit

noun
1.
The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses).  Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profits.
2.
The advantageous quality of being beneficial.  Synonym: gain.
verb
(past & past part. profited; pres. part. profiting)
1.
Derive a benefit from.  Synonyms: benefit, gain.
2.
Make a profit; gain money or materially.  Synonym: turn a profit.



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"Profits" Quotes from Famous Books



... a present day situation wherein men play for big financial stakes and women flourish on the profits—or ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy
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... during the early months there were no jars and no derangements. Madame, however, pained Zoe extremely with her imprudent acts, her sudden fits of unwisdom, her mad bravado. Still the lady's maid grew gradually lenient, for she had noticed that she made increased profits in seasons of wanton waste when Madame had committed a folly which must be made up for. It was then that the presents began raining on her, and she fished up many a louis ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
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... quarrel. What I want to hear is from curiosity; what I want you to judge of is what we are to do with the book in a business sense. To me it is not business at all; I had meant originally to lay all the profits to the credit of Samoa; when it comes to the pinch of writing, I judge this unfair - I give too much - and I mean to keep (if there be any profit at all) one- half for the artisan; the rest I shall hold over to give ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
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... has," said Meredith; "and I will go into company with you if he will furnish the means. I am not acquainted with the business, and you are; so I will furnish the capital, and you shall manage the concern, and we will share the profits equally." ...
— The Printer Boy. - Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. • William M. Thayer
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... Origin of the Human Species, I would divide the proceeds with him. Jack and I had shared and shared alike with our little gains too often in years gone by, for me to remember which owed the other now. Besides, I told him that I had studied his habits as a gorilla, and he had some claim upon the profits of an article in which his personal ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various
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