1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
3. Noun
To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
4. Verb
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
5. Verb
To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
6. Noun
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
Vocabulary classified under Business and finance
7. Noun
the advantageous quality of being beneficial
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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