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noun

Profit n.

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. "Let no man anticipate uncertain profits."

Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit, "This I speak for your own profit." "If you dare do yourself a profit and a right."

Synonyms: Benefit; avail; service; improvement; advancement; gain; emolument.

verb

Profit v. t. (past & past part. profited; pres. part. profiting) 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. "The word preached did not profit them." "It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs."

Profit v. i.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance. "I profit not by thy talk."

To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good. "Riches profit not in the day of wrath."

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Etymology of 'Profit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Profit" Quotes from Famous Books

... allured by the hope that a short confinement would expiate the sins of a whole life; and others again were actuated by the less honorable motive of deriving a plentiful subsistence, and perhaps a considerable profit, from the alms which the charity of the faithful bestowed on the prisoners. After the church had triumphed over all her enemies, the interest as well as vanity of the captives prompted them to magnify the merit of their respective sufferings. ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... all. It was this way. He, or rather his firm, which is only another name for him, for he owned three-fourths of the capital, got some tremendous shipping contract with the Government arising out of the war, that secures an enormous profit to them; how much I can't tell you, but hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds. He had been very anxious about this contract, for his terms were so stiff that the officials who manage such affairs hesitated ...

— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard

... sorrowful news or accounts of sad calamities, no filth, nothing improper, nothing afflicting. On the contrary, if such conversation is begun by any one else, do your best adroitly to turn the subject. Never relate your dreams except to your confidants, and then only to profit by their interpretation, taking care not to put the least ...

— George Washington's Rules of Civility - Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway • Moncure D. Conway

... seems to be sought after, although certain kinds are somewhat abundant in our waters. It is stated by the New South Wales Fisheries Enquiry Commission, 1880, that 'the cephalopods might be made a source of a considerable profit for exportation to Japan and China. In both these countries all animal substances of a gelatinous character are in great request, and none more than those of the cuttle-fish tribe; the squid (Sepioteuthis australis) is highly ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... handsome manner, and to have it illustrated with woodcuts, by the best artists; being more desirous to give to others that ardent attachment to the beauties of the country that has clung to me from a boy, and for the promotion of which all our real poets are so distinguished, than to realise much profit. Anything that thou couldst send me about your country life, or the impression which the scenery makes upon a poetical mind at different seasons, on your heaths and among your hills, I should be proud to acknowledge, and should regard as the ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

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