profit
See also: Profit
Contents
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (French: profit), from Latin profectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficere (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”); see proficient.
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.
- 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.
- Rambler
- (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
- Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.
- Bible, 1 Corinthians vii. 35
- This I speak for your own profit.
- Shakespeare
- 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 correct. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics. Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.
SynonymsEdit
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TranslationsEdit
benefit
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total income or cash flow minus expenditures
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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).
- Bible, Hebrews iv. 2
- The word preached did not profit them.
- Dryden
- It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.
- Bible, Hebrews iv. 2
- (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
- (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.
TranslationsEdit
To benefit, be of use to
To benefit, gain
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.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
profit m (plural profits)
Derived termsEdit
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, 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 le 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)
- profit (total income or cash flow minus expenditures)
DeclensionEdit
| 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 |
SynonymsEdit
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
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French profit, from Latin profectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”).
NounEdit
profit m (plural profits)