profit

«profit» in Mova's school dictionary: the money you have left after you take away what you… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a profit, profits; also uncountable); verb (profit, profits, profited, profiting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Profit is the money you have left after you take away what you spent from what you earned. tree →

2) (verb) To profit is to make money from something. tree →

3) (verb) To profit from something can mean to gain or learn something good from it. tree →

4) Profit can also mean a benefit or good result, not only money. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths money problems, profit = selling price − cost price. If the costs are bigger, there is a loss instead. At a school fair pupils work out the profit from a cake stall. In business people talk about making a profit. Phrases: make a profit, profit and loss, at a profit, profit from.

examples

• We sold lemonade and made a profit of $12. tree →
• The cakes cost £10 to make and sold for £25, so the profit was £15. tree →
• If you sell it for less than it cost, you make a loss, not a profit. tree →
• The shop's profits went up this year. tree →
• Everyone can profit from reading more. tree →
• The charity profited from the school's fun run. tree →
• Work out the total profit from the bake sale. tree →
• He sold his old bike at a profit. tree →
• Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. tree →

note

Profit = money in − money out; a negative result is called a loss. Regular verb: profited (one t), profiting. Homophone: «prophet» (a person who foretells or speaks for God) — same sound, different meaning. In maths: «profit per item» × number of items = total profit.

In the corpora

• Many people mix up takings and profit; profit is only what is left after costs.
• "All hard work brings a profit" (Proverbs 14:23): making a cheat sheet carefully can teach you everything on it.
• A machine has an owner, so keeping a machine's mistake profits from someone's loss.
• Profit is the money a business has left after paying all its costs.
• And Judah said unto his brethren: 'What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «profit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.