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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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Edwige Hill, Deputy Director in HMRC's Fraud Investigation Service, said the two men "showed a blatant disregard for international sanctions, seeking to profit from the illegal supply of weapons".

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

The company logged a second-quarter profit of $1.71 billion, or $4.25 a share, compared with $1.69 billion, or $3.94 a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Anja Hohmeyer, Specialist Prosecutor from the CPS, said the agency "will not hesitate to prosecute those who seek to profit from conflict".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

The deals lasted as long as the underlying bonds, which had an expected life of about six years, which, when you did the math, implied a profit for the Goldman trader of $2.4 billion.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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