profit
Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
Other meanings
Benefit, positive result obtained.
“Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.”
Synonyms
- gain
Antonyms
- loss
Related words
- disprofit
- megaprofit
- profitless
- profitmaking
- profitmonger
- profitseeking
- profitsome
- profitwise
- superprofit
- unprofit
- for-profit
- accounting profit
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "prōfectus" (advance, progress, growth, increase, profit).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “profit” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.