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profit   (TTS Sound)

The noun profit has 2 senses

• net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings -- (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))


• profit, gain -- (the advantageous quality of being beneficial)

The verb profit has 2 senses

• profit, gain, benefit -- (derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience")


• profit, turn a profit -- (make a profit; gain money or materially; "The company has not profited from the merger")