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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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And while businesses are also facing rising costs, "subdued domestic demand is limiting firms' ability to pass these higher costs on to consumers, which is likely to squeeze profit margins".

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

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

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

RH’s fiscal first-quarter loss came in at $13.7 million, or 73 cents a share, compared with a profit of $8 million, or 40 cents a share, a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

All retained some small fraction of the loans they originated, and the companies were allowed to book as profit the expected future value of those loans.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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