Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - profit
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n. & v. --n. 1 an advantage or benefit. 2 financial gain; excess of returns over outlay. --v. (profited, profiting) 1 tr. (also absol.) be beneficial to. 2 intr. obtain an advantage or benefit (profited by the experience). Phrases and idioms at a profit with financial gain. profit and loss account an account in which gains are credited and losses debited so as to show the net profit or loss at any time. profit margin the profit remaining in a business after costs have been deducted. profit-sharing the sharing of profits esp. between employer and employees. profit-taking the sale of shares etc. at a time when profit will accrue. Derivatives profitless adj. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L profectus progress, profit f. proficere profect- advance (as PRO-(1), facere do)
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin profectus advance, ~, from proficere Date: 14th century a valuable return ; gain, the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions, net income usually for a given period of time, the ratio of ~ for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales, the compensation accruing to entrepreneurs for the assumption of risk in business enterprise as distinguished from wages or rent, ~less adjective ~wise adverb II. verb Date: 14th century intransitive verb to be of service or advantage ; avail, to derive benefit ; gain, to make a ~, transitive verb to be of service to ; benefit ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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