Synonyms for profit
ˈprɒf ɪt

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1. profitnoun

   Synonyms:
   gain

   Antonyms:
   loss

2. profitnoun

   To benefit (sb), be of use to (sb).

   Synonyms:
   gain

   Antonyms:
   loss

3. profitnoun

   Benefit, positive result obtained.

   Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.

   Synonyms:
   gain

   Antonyms:
   loss

4. profitnoun

   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).

   Synonyms:
   gain

   Antonyms:
   loss

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1. profit

   The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.

   Synonyms:
   advantage, avail, benefit, emolument, expediency, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, receipts, return, returns, service, usefulness, utility, value

   Antonyms:
   damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

   Preposition:
   The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

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1. profit

   Synonyms:
   gain, emolument, advantage, avail, acquisition, benefit service, use, improvement

   Antonyms:
   loss, detriment, damage, disadvantage, waste

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1. net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earningsnoun

   the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

   Synonyms:
   lolly, net, cyberspace, clams, sugar, remuneration, net income, cabbage, wampum, win, lucre, boodle, meshing, gelt, network, bread, earnings, internet, lettuce, gain, loot, winnings, scratch, simoleons, profits, pelf, mesh, wage, dough, dinero, kale, salary, meshwork, net profit, pay, shekels, moolah

   Antonyms:
   turn a loss, lose, break even

2. profit, gainverb

   the advantageous quality of being beneficial

   Synonyms:
   increase, gain, lucre, net income, earnings, profits, net, addition, amplification, net profit

   Antonyms:
   turn a loss, lose, break even

3. profit, gain, benefitverb

   derive a benefit from

   "She profited from his vast experience"

   Synonyms:
   clear, gain ground, derive, acquire, realise, gain, reach, win, get ahead, make headway, attain, turn a profit, bring in, put on, take in, pull in, gather, do good, hit, arrive at, advance, realize, pull ahead, benefit, make, earn

   Antonyms:
   turn a loss, lose, break even

4. profit, turn a profitverb

   make a profit; gain money or materially

   "The company has not profited from the merger"

   Synonyms:
   turn a profit, benefit, gain

   Antonyms:
   lose, break even, turn a loss

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Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. profitnoun

   Synonyms:
   gain, produce, emolument, return, avails

2. profitnoun

   Synonyms:
   advantage, benefit, service, weal, interest, welfare, behoof, behalf, account, utility

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1. profitnoun

   Synonyms:
   gain, emolument, dividend

   Associated words:
   pernor, fructuary, exploit, exploitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "profit":

   profits, benefit, gain, earnings, gains, benefits, profitability, advantage, beneficiary, earns, dividend

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1. Ken Paulson:

   Legislators have been trying for 25 years to stop criminals from making a profit.

2. Richard Lu:

   Mills should be able to afford the investment of environmental equipment since profit margins of steelmaking are at a historical high level.

3. Charles Silver:

   Most doctors don’t think about cost and are just doing their job, and the people who do know — like administrators — are just doing what comes naturally, maximizing profit.

4. Publilius Syrus:

   It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

5. Gu Meng:

   (The restriction) will further squeeze profit margins at steel mills after Vale's accident has already driven up iron ore prices.

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