profit
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: prŏfʹit, IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒfɪt/
- (General American) enPR: prŏfʹit, IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑfɪt/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: prophet
- Rhymes: -ɒfɪt
- Hyphenation: prof‧it
NounEdit
profit (countable and uncountable, plural profits)
- (accounting, economics) 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.
- October 2, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
- Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
- October 2, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
- (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
- Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), 1 Corinthians vii. 35
- This I speak for your own profit.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- if you dare do yourself a profit and a right
- (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).
Usage notesEdit
Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative, the term loss is preferred. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics. Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.
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VerbEdit
profit (third-person singular simple present profits, present participle profiting, simple past and past participle profited)
- (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Hebrews 4:2:
- The word preached did not profit them.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently those excellent pieces and beautiful designs.
- (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
- (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.
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Further readingEdit
- profit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- profit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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CatalanEdit
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profit m (plural profits)
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Further readingEdit
- “profit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “profit” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “profit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “profit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French profit, from Latin prōfectus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
profit m (plural profits)
- profit, benefit
- Il a su tirer profit de ses connaissances.
- He managed to take advantage of his knowledge.
Further readingEdit
- “profit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from German Profit.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
profit (plural profitok)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | profit | profitok |
accusative | profitot | profitokat |
dative | profitnak | profitoknak |
instrumental | profittal | profitokkal |
causal-final | profitért | profitokért |
translative | profittá | profitokká |
terminative | profitig | profitokig |
essive-formal | profitként | profitokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | profitban | profitokban |
superessive | profiton | profitokon |
adessive | profitnál | profitoknál |
illative | profitba | profitokba |
sublative | profitra | profitokra |
allative | profithoz | profitokhoz |
elative | profitból | profitokból |
delative | profitról | profitokról |
ablative | profittól | profitoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
profité | profitoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
profitéi | profitokéi |
Possessive forms of profit | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | profitom | profitjaim |
2nd person sing. | profitod | profitjaid |
3rd person sing. | profitja | profitjai |
1st person plural | profitunk | profitjaink |
2nd person plural | profitotok | profitjaitok |
3rd person plural | profitjuk | profitjaik |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- profit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French profit, from Latin profectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”).
NounEdit
profit m (plural profits)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
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pròfīt m (Cyrillic spelling про̀фӣт)
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profit