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

In the meantime, farmers do their best to beef up security – hyperaware that all someone needs to do is cut off a branch from their trees for it to be smuggled away, draining their profits from some distant orchard in another country. — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

Using profits from the sale of the Van Dyke, Soyka, converted redesigned a four-block industrial section tucked off Biscayne Boulevard to include his signature Soyka restaurant and Andiamo Brick Oven Pizza across the street. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

Speakers noted the Republican nominee's oil and gas investments as the energy sector amasses profits while the Iran war drives up fuel costs. — Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026

Higher discount rate High bond yields pressure stocks by increasing the discount rate investors apply to future profits, making those earnings – and therefore the stocks – less valuable today. — Paulina Likos, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

While corporate profits are soaring, labor’s share of the gains is shrinking. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

The tax code allows profits from these businesses to flow to the owner's personal tax return, avoiding the double taxation of corporate taxes. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

But as the Financial Times reports, the influx of cheap panels is placing new strains on the grid, and the underlying business model of utility companies which see shrinking profits alongside an explosion in self-generation. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

At the same time, refinery companies are seeing large profits. — Jamie Webster, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026

Verb

Divided Supreme Court lets Trump's White House ballroom construction continue A mom's website shows who profits from ICE. — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

The former is akin to the player profits the Premier League and UEFA allow clubs to include in their SCR calculations, but the EFL’s version comes replete with crucial differences. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026

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

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