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noun

Profit n.

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. "Let no man anticipate uncertain profits."

Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit, "This I speak for your own profit." "If you dare do yourself a profit and a right."

Synonyms: Benefit; avail; service; improvement; advancement; gain; emolument.

verb

Profit v. t. (past & past part. profited; pres. part. profiting) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men. "The word preached did not profit them." "It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs."

Profit v. i.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance. "I profit not by thy talk."

To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good. "Riches profit not in the day of wrath."

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"Profit" Quotes from Famous Books

... these warlike preparations. Anton insisted, indeed, upon what was absolutely necessary being done, but he felt that a time was come when anxiety about individual profit and loss vanished before graver terrors. The rumors, which grew daily more threatening, kept him, and those around him, in ever-increasing excitement; and at last they fell into a habitual state of feverish suspense, in which the future was looked forward to with reckless indifference, ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

... It is fitting that the farm buildings should be well constructed, that you should have ample oil cellars and wine vats, and a good supply of casks, so that you can wait for high prices, something which will redound to your honour, your profit and ...

— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato

... pages of the periodical. The arrangement brought reputation to the magazine (which was published in the days when the honor of being in print was supposed by the publisher to be ample compensation to the scribe), but little profit to Mr. Irving. During this period he interested himself in an international copyright, as a means of fostering our young literature. He found that a work of merit, written by an American who had not established a commanding name ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... over as it should be, would infallibly impart with them—The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the younger affirm, 'That he never read a book so bad, but he drew some profit from it.' The stories of Greece and Rome, run over without this turn and application,—do less service, I affirm it, than the history of Parismus and Parismenus, or of the Seven Champions of England, ...

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne

... and thank the Lord for His unspeakable mercy to the children of men. I couldn't have stood that man much longer, and that's the gospel truth. He ate like a pig, so there wasn't a mite of profit in it. And he was as fussy as any old maid I ever saw. If I have to choose between an old maid and an old batch for a boarder, give me the old maid every time. She don't begin to eat so much, and ...

— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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