profit
Definition of profit:
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part of speech: verb
To gain advantage: to receive profit: to improve: to be of advantage: to bring good.
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part of speech: noun
Gain: the gain resulting from the employment of capital: advantage: benefit: improvement.
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part of speech: noun
Gain; advantage; emolument; the difference in favour of the seller between the cost and selling price of commodities; improvement.
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part of speech: verb
To benefit; to improve; to gain advantage; to receive profit; to become wiser and better; to bring good to.
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part of speech: verb
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Common misspellings:
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- profilt (1.1%)
- profil (0.5%)
- profiet (1.1%)
- proit (1.1%)
- progit (1.1%)
- proift (1.1%)
- profti (1.1%)
- prfit (2.7%)
- profet (8.6%)
- profitting (0.5%)
- proft (20.5%)
- rpofit (1.1%)
- pofit (2.2%)
- proffit (33.0%)
- perfit (0.5%)
- profiteth (2.7%)
- profite (5.9%)
- porfit (4.9%)
- provite (0.5%)
- profot (1.1%)
- profett (1.1%)
- provit (1.1%)
- profitt (2.2%)
- profithes (1.1%)
- profeit (1.1%)
- profist (1.1%)
- proflt (1.1%)
Usage examples for profit:
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It ran thus:- " Dear Captain,- We have been allowed holiday for the whole of to- day; and we know of no way in which we could spend it with so much of pleasure and profit as by listening to you.
"The Boy Tar" – Mayne Reid -
Now to the profit
"The Caxtons, Part 2" – Edward Bulwer-Lytton -
Tell me all; and you will find your profit in it.
"Catherine de' Medici" – Honore de Balzac -
More: he would agree to carry them for the land until they had an opportunity to sell out at a profit of at least three thousand dollars!
"The Long Chance" – Peter B. Kyne
