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Profit

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.

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Narrower term 5

Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Accumulation 76% connected

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

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Dividend 76% connected

A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- ap…

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Killing 76% connected

of Kill

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Margin 76% connected

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Advantage 76% connected

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantag…

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Earn 76% connected

See Ern, n.

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Income 76% connected

A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Realize 76% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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Vantage 76% connected

superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

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Manner of action 5

Capitalize 76% connected

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

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Clear 76% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Net 76% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Pyramid 76% connected

A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this s…

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Sack 76% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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Benefit 74% connected

An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

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Benefit 74% connected

An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

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Component part 4

Part 70% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Percentage 70% connected

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

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Portion 70% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Share 70% connected

The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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Synonym 5

Benefit 92% connected

An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

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Earnings 92% connected

of Earning

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gain 92% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lucre 92% connected

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Net 92% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Antonym 2

Lose 94% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

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Lose 94% connected

To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…

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