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as in earnings
the amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received
after we deducted the cost of sugar, lemons, and paper cups, the profit from a day of lemonade sales was about $20
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as in revenue
an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property
found that there was a profit in training dogs for rich people
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as in to benefit
to provide with something useful or desirable
an agreement that profited us all
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Recent Examples of profit
Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
Third, harvest as much profit as possible through the economies of scale created by giant production runs.
—Oisín Hanrahan, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
Hannah Shewan Stevens, Glamour, 23 Jan. 2026
Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, told CNN that the market whipsaw can be great for traders who seek opportunities to profit amid dips in the market.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
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Noun
The company reported an over threefold surge in fourth-quarter profits Thursday, hitting a new record and beating estimates, on a memory chip shortage and strong demand for artificial intelligence servers.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026
Third, harvest as much profit as possible through the economies of scale created by giant production runs.
—Oisín Hanrahan, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
When Hilton’s private video was shared and profited from without her consent, there were no laws to protect her, only an avalanche of shame that tried to put her into hiding.
—Hannah Shewan Stevens, Glamour, 23 Jan. 2026
Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, told CNN that the market whipsaw can be great for traders who seek opportunities to profit amid dips in the market.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for profit
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The region typically represents significant box office revenue for Hindi films given the large Indian diaspora populations in those markets.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The company’s share of its agreement with California — $55 million — is barely a speck on its balance sheet; revenue for Alphabet, Google’s parent company, topped $102 billion in its most recent quarterly earnings report.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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At the time, many of the provisions contained benefited from bipartisan support.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Smith said a model incorporating all trade union concerns works at Fullstack Modular in Carson, for example, where workers benefit from, among other things, being able to work at one location rather than ever-changing construction sites.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
27 Jan. 2026
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Growth in services consumption outpacing goods expenditure largely reflects rising average income levels and would likely have occurred even without policy support, said Duncan Wrigley, chief China economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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In other words, even if the old need (income replacement) is gone, a new purpose may have taken its place.—
Andrew Rosen,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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This post was originally published on January 23 Bitcoin has limped into 2026, flailing in the wake of a gold price boom that’s catapulted it to an eye-watering $34 trillion market capitalization (triggering predictions of even more gains to come).—
Billy Bambrough,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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Trump’s second term came on the heels of the S&P 500’s first back-to-back annual gains of more than 20% since the 1990s.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
25 Jan. 2026
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“Profit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profit. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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