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 benefits
to provide with something useful or desirable
an agreement that profited us all
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Recent Examples of profits
Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Squeezed by falling profits in key market China and weak auto demand in Europe, Volkswagen has also launched a major cost-cutting program that will see more than 35,000 jobs go, along with painful capacity cuts at its German plants.
—Christoph Steitz, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
His Instagram feed includes recent posts promoting Hanks Coffee, with profits going to veterans support organizations, and another post promoting voter registration.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
The siblings have used the profits to pay off their debts and invest back into the business, such as hiring a barista for events.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Along with their businesses, communities lost newspapers, fraternal halls, and churches that those profits had helped sustain.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Some directly correlate to current and future projections in alignment with the nation's economic climate, while others are company-specific and conducted to maximize profits at the behest of the workforce.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
This year's Labor Day box office is nothing to write home about in terms of pure profits.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
There will be a booth highlighting the work of Loveland High School art students and booths dedicated to two non-profits.
—Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
The big film studios have alleged that Midjourney profits off image generation models trained to produce outputs of popular characters.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
People want to know where their data is, how it’s used and who profits from it.
—Haider Nazar, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
Another useful predictor of recessions has been earnings growth, as a recession is typically associated with a year-over-year decline in corporate profits.
—Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Squeezed by falling profits in key market China and weak auto demand in Europe, Volkswagen has also launched a major cost-cutting program that will see more than 35,000 jobs go, along with painful capacity cuts at its German plants.
—Christoph Steitz, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
His Instagram feed includes recent posts promoting Hanks Coffee, with profits going to veterans support organizations, and another post promoting voter registration.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
The siblings have used the profits to pay off their debts and invest back into the business, such as hiring a barista for events.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Along with their businesses, communities lost newspapers, fraternal halls, and churches that those profits had helped sustain.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Some directly correlate to current and future projections in alignment with the nation's economic climate, while others are company-specific and conducted to maximize profits at the behest of the workforce.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
This year's Labor Day box office is nothing to write home about in terms of pure profits.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
There will be a booth highlighting the work of Loveland High School art students and booths dedicated to two non-profits.
—Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
The big film studios have alleged that Midjourney profits off image generation models trained to produce outputs of popular characters.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
People want to know where their data is, how it’s used and who profits from it.
—Haider Nazar, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for profits
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SpaceX additionally benefits from billions of dollars in contracts from NASA and the Department of Defense by providing launch services for classified satellites and other payloads.—
Eric Lagatta,
AZCentral.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Who benefits, and at what cost?—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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Unrealized gains are marked-to-market, and a hefty tax bill may follow.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Voters instead delivered gains to both far-right and far-left parties.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Profits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profits. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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