Synonyms of profits

profits 1 of 2

noun

plural of profit

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• earnings
• proceeds
• gains
• returns
• incomes
• revenues
• salaries
• payoffs
• wages
• sales
• lucre
• windfalls
• nets
• payments
• yields
• cleanups
• killings
• bottom lines
• pays
• emoluments
• compensations
• interests
• grosses
• remittals
• requitals

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• costs
• expenses
• expenditures
• losses
• outlays
• charges
• disbursements
• outgoes

profits

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of profit

as in benefits

to provide with something useful or desirable

an agreement that profited us all

Synonyms & Similar Words

• benefits
• advantages
• helps
• avails
• works (for)
• serves
• aids
• contents
• improves
• succeeds
• assists
• delights
• pleases
• satisfies
• betters
• gratifies
• blesses
• gladdens

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hinders
• damages
• hurts
• impedes
• harms
• impairs
• injures
• upsets
• afflicts
• distresses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of profits

Noun

And artists deserve a fair pay percentage for work that assists their employers in making profits. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026

About half those profits came from immunotherapy drugs like pembrolizumab and nivolumab. — CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

Now, parts and service departments and finance and insurance packages are becoming more important sources of profit for car dealers, as profits from new vehicle sales show signs of softening. — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026

When those contracts resolved in his favor, his profits exceeded $400,000. — The Insider, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

But capital allocators have yet to see whether greater size delivers similarly attractive returns and profits. — Ilya Strebulaev, Time, 18 Aug. 2026

The company also reported a rare decline in profits last month. — Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

The technology soon generated seven figures in trading profits, prompting the duo to adapt it into an enterprise platform. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026

By 2022, those losses were up to $308,000, as profits reached $344,000, but expenses hit $652,000. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026

Verb

The argument is about how coverage is structured, who profits from the current structure and what employers can do about it before their next renewal becomes a crisis. — Yasser Almuaala, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Click here for a full list of non-profits the stores support. — Dawn White, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2026

This sentence demonstrates that anyone who profits from these schemes will face serious consequences. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 24 July 2026

For too long, families and businesses have been at the mercy of a fossil fuel industry that profits from scarcity and price volatility while passing the costs on to customers. — Julianna Larue, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026

In a case pending in federal court in Oakland, California, three Facebook users allege that the company profits from online swindles at the expense of users. — David Ingram, NBC news, 12 May 2026

Apple, which profits from having apps like X and Grok on its digital store, has not spoken publicly about the issue or its behind-the-scenes intervention. — Robert Hart, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2026

My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. — Vikas Patel, STAT, 3 Apr. 2026

Because the somewhat complex antitrust case is being tried before a 12-person jury, each party took pains to lay out the process, and provide visual explainers, about how an artist works with promoters and others to book a tour, and who profits. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 3 Mar. 2026