Profit

//ˈpɹɒfɪt//

"Profit" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Peter was an altruistic video game player; he would give items to people who needed them, rather than selling them for personal profit.

Stock investments do not always yield profit.

We shared the profit among us all.

The rise in house prices enabled him to sell his house at a big profit.

Ichiro puts friendship above profit.

At best we can only hope for a small profit.

Robert got a small proportion of the profit.

Make a handsome profit of one thousand dollars.

The company's profit amounted to $250 million before tax.

It was to his profit to do so.

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Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

After the pandemic, MLG lost a lot of its viewership and profits which led it to close. The MLG Twitter account is no longer active and the mlg.com website directs to Battlenet instead of its old website.

Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.

This I speak for your own profit.

if you dare do yourself a profit and a right

The word preached did not profit them.

It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently those excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

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