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profit

[prof-it] / ˈprɒf ɪt /




Usage

What are other ways to say profit? Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit. Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society.

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Whether the state has any jurisdiction over a Swiss-based "non profit" is unclear.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

For bearish traders, the firm’s Leverage Shares 2X Short SpaceX Daily ETF will provide a way to potentially profit from their expectations for a daily decline in the company’s share price.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Lennar reported a second-quarter profit of $304.8 million, or $1.24 a share, compared with a profit of $477.4 million, or $1.81 a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The average operating profit margin for an aerospace and defense company in the Russell 1000 is closer to 17%.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

This action angered both settlers who wanted to move into that region and the land speculators who sought to profit from selling land there.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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