Profit

Definition: Profit

Profit

Noun

1. The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses).

2. The advantageous quality of being beneficial.

Verb

1. Derive benefit from.

2. Make a profit; gain money or materially; "The company has not profited from the merger".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "profit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Profit \Prof"it\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Profited; Profiting.]. (Websters 1913)

Business

Computing

Finance

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PROFIT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Profit

Accounts

Books, account book, ledger; day book, cash book, pass book; journal; debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account; account current; balance, balance sheet; compte rendu, account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts; profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts.

Acquisition

Profit; make profit, draw profit, turn a quick profit; turn to profit, turn to account; make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of; reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny; make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket; (wealth).

Profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit; avails; income; (receipt); proceeds, produce, product; outcome, output; return, fruit, crop, harvest; second crop, aftermath; benefit; (good).

Good

Noun: good, benefit, advantage; improvement; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest.

Improvement

Be better; Adjective:, be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.

Increase

Noun: increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation; (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration exacerbation; spread; (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit.

Inexpedience

Verb: be beneficial; Adjective:; produce good, do good; profit; (be of use); benefit; confer a benefit.

Receipt

Noun: receipt, value received, money coming in; income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds; gross receipts, net profit; earnings; (gain); accepta, avails.

Skill

Take advantage of, make the most of; profit by &e. (use); make a hit; (succeed); make a virtue of necessity; make hay while the sun shines; (occasion).

Success

Trump card; hit, stroke, score; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke; direct hit, bull's eye; goal, point, touchdown; home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam; killing, windfall bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike; coup de maitre, checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit; (acquisition).

Speed; make progress; (advance); win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper; drive a roaring trade; make profit; (acquire); reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil , gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account; (use).

Use

Ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try.

Utility

Bear fruit; (produce); bring grist to the mill; profit, remunerate; benefit; (do good).

Crosswords: Profit

Czech (profit), French (account, advantage, avail, behoof, cleanup, clue, fruitfulness, gain, gaining, good, increase, increment, jackpot, odds, payoff, profit), German (gain, makings, profit), Hungarian (gains, increment, makings, profit), Romanian (account, advantage, bargain, behoof, benefit, boot, convenience, Favor, favour, gain, good, grist, hand, interest, job, profit, return, use, velvet, yield), Serbo-Croatian (makings, profit), Swedish (gain, profit).

I can think of a number of important people in this world of ours who would profit enormously from the experience. (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; writing credit: Charles Bennett)

Well, possible motives for murder are profit, revenge, jealousy, to conceal a crime, to avoid humiliation, or plain old homicidal mania. (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini)

With pleasure and profit, and so would you. What are the odds if we don't? (The Narrow Margin; writing credit: Earl Felton; Martin Goldsmith)

You read the profit and loss statements like a vulture, and you play the stock market like a fox, but you store your nuts away like a squirrel. (Good Morning... and Goodbye!; writing credit: Jack Moran)

That's probably because you haven't made a profit in the last thirty-nine. (Invasion U.S.A.; writing credit: James Bruner)

Had to be 12 son had to make a profit (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

Stole her car, made a profit (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

There's no profit in deceit (Every Kinda People; performing artist: ROBERT PALMER)

Defaming my name for a profit (Whatchulookinat; performing artist: Whitney Houston)

Adultery for Fun and Profit (1970)

Crossbreeding for Profit (1961)

Credit for Profit (1961)

The Greater Profit (1921)

Profit and the Loss (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Profit Recovery Group International, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Join the Profit Club: The Top Achiever's Guide to Selling Success (reference)

• The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value (reference)

• Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit (reference)

• The Great Boom Ahead: Your Comprehensive Guide to Personal and Business Profit in the New Era of Prosperity (reference)

• Adrian Slywotzky: On Strategy -- Understanding Business Potential By Analyzing Profit Patterns [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ceskomorausky Profit (reference)

• Cooking For Profit (reference)

• Green Profit (reference)

• Phc Profit Report (reference)

• Pork Profit Edge (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bartending for Fun & Profit (reference)

• Marketing for MAXIMUM PROFIT (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Texas Instruments BA-20 Profit Manager Desktop (reference)

• TIME AND PROFIT W95/98/W2K/NT (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Une consultation mis � profit. / Bouchot Lith. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Russian worker bound by profit policy. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Tammany is great and Croker gets the profit" / Keppler. Credit: Library of Congress.

Salon des Armées, réservé aux artistes du front. Au profit des oeuvres de guerre. Jardin des Tuileries. Credit: Library of Congress.

Exposition de tableaux de maîtres contemporains . . . vente au profit de l'oeuvre du soldat blessé ou malade. Galerie Georges Bernheim. Credit: Library of Congress.

Journées de Bourg-la-Reine . . . 1915 - au profit des oeuvres de la commune. Credit: Library of Congress.

Journée de l'Orne. 17 octobre 1915. Au profit des oeuvres de guerre du Département. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grand festival des alliés. Kermesse de l'enfance . . . au profit de l'école de réeducation professionnelle des mutilés de guerre de Bordeaux. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grande kermesse des fleurs 19 et 20 mai 1918. A l'Hôtel de Ville de Bordeaux. Au profit des oeuvres de guerre et de l'enfance. Credit: Library of Congress.

G.E. off campus! and G.E. products too! : war profit is their most important product. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And indeed, if that be so, the people under his government are not a society of rational creatures, entered into a community for their mutual good; they are not such as have set rulers over themselves, to guard, and promote that good; but are to be looked on as an herd of inferior creatures under the dominion of a master, who keeps them and works them for his own pleasure or profit. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. (reference)

In particular the vessels of any one of the Allied or Associated Powers shall be entitled to transport goods of any description, and passengers, to or from any ports or places in German territory to which German vessels may have access, under conditions which shall not be more onerous than those applied in the case of national vessels; they shall be treated on a footing of equality with national vessels as regards port and harbour facilities and charges of every description, including facilities for stationing loading, and unloading, and duties and charges of tonnage, harbour, pilotage, light-house, quarantine, and all analogous duties and charges of whatsoever nature, levied in the name of or for the profit of the Government, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations or establishments of any kind. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He had an idea of calling the guard, but Jean Valjean might profit by his absence to escape.

And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange.

I write without any view towards profit or praise.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Because heroin is illegal, addicted persons often become part of a volatile drug-using street culture characterized by hustling and crimes for profit. (references)

Business

The projects generally must show the required profit after seven years. (references)

This intense competition also causes profit margins to fluctuate widely. (references)

No profit repatriation or financial transfer restrictions apply in Panama. (references)

Children

Mexico

When physical or psychological violence is used to abuse sexually or profit from children's exploitation, the minimum and maximum penalties for these crimes are increased by up to half. (references)

Civil Liberties

Rwanda

In late 2000, a few "storefront" evangelical preachers applied for status as nonprofit groups but were refused following a determination by the Ministry that the groups were profit oriented. (references)

Tajikistan

The motivation for quotas and other restrictions appears to be profit (maximizing bribes from Hajj pilgrims), rather than discouraging a religious practice. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Medium and smaller importers also specialize in a narrow range of goods, but no one is averse to adding a completely different product line if profit can be foreseen. (references)

Korea

Rapid technological and economic change in the architectural/engineering services industry in Korea is leading to a more integrated approach in which the construction industry pools its technological and economic resources to improve efficiency and to maximize profit. (references)

Kenya

In 1995, the government scrapped the Exchange Control Act, thus eliminating restrictions on profit remittances, local and international borrowing. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

Some observers allege that prison officials use the free prison labor for personal profit; however, many inmates leave prison with a valid trade certificate. (references)

Philippines

The ASG, which from time to time claims that its motivations are political or religious in order to attract sympathy for its actions, and which in the past has had links to the al-Qaida terrorist organization, appeared during the year to use terror mainly for profit. (references)

Ecuador

Criminal kidnaping for profit continued to be a problem. (references)

Political Economy

CZECH REPUBLIC

U.S. firms have complained that Czech tax legislation effectively penalizes use of holding company structures by leveling both corporate tax and dividends withholding tax on profit flows between group companies, thus creating double taxation on such profits. (references)

ECUADOR

The same law lowered drugstore gross profit margins for branded pharmaceuticals to 20 percent, while maintaining the margins for generic drugs at 25 percent and requiring drugstores to devote a certain percentage of shelf space to generic medicines. (references)

Yugoslavia

A significant reform of the tax system was implemented during the year and the Serbian Government assessed a special "extra profit tax" on numerous companies and individuals who allegedly made excess profits under the Milosevic regime. (references)

Trade

Burma

These military/government corporations receive an 11 percent commission on transactions as well as a favorable exchange rate that allows them to profit from the transaction. (references)

Ukraine

The most important taxes include value added tax (VAT) and import VAT (20 percent -- calculated on the difference between the VAT collected by a seller from its customers and the VAT paid to suppliers), corporate profit tax ( 30 percent), a progress personal income tax based on an employee's income (up to 40 percent), payroll taxes paid by employers to the Social Insurance Fund and Pension Fund, (37.5 percent of the payroll), excise taxes (up to 300 percent); and import-export duties. (references)

Pakistan

The remaining profit is allocated pro rata to all certificate holders including the manager in his capacity as a subscriber. (references)

Travel

Korea

Your offer may include the best price, technology and profit potential but still be turned down because the Korean customer does not like your style. (references)

Chad

Company taxes: These taxes are applicable to all legally registered corporations and are imposed in the Chadian fiscal year from January 1 to December 31. The rates are as follows: corporate profit tax 45 percent, rental properties income, built or unbuilt 25 percent. (references)

Women

Chad

FGM usually is performed prior to puberty as a rite of passage and an occasion during which many families profit from gifts from their communities. (references)

Worker Rights

South Africa

Of the 2 million children who spent at least 1 hour per week in activities for pay, profit, or family economic gain, 59 percent were involved in agriculture and 33 percent in trade. (references)

Mexico

Legally required benefits include free social security medical treatment, pensions, individual worker housing and retirement accounts, substantial Christmas bonuses, paid vacations, and profit sharing. (references)

South Africa

The women usually are debt-bonded to the agent who recruited them and are required to make a profit for both their trafficker and employer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Who brings profit

Expressions using "profit": a fat profit ♦ Accumulated profit ♦ anticipated profit ♦ assessable profit ♦ average rate of profit ♦ be a profit to smb. ♦ bring profit ♦ business profit ♦ business profit tax ♦ capital profit ♦ cash operating profit ♦ clear profit ♦ company's profit ♦ cost volume profit analysis ♦ distributed profit ♦ estimated profit ♦ expected profit ♦ fictitious profit ♦ for his profit ♦ gross operating loss or profit ♦ gross profit ♦ gross profit margin ♦ he did it more out of spite than for the profit ♦ illegal profit ♦ illicit profit ♦ leave a profit ♦ make a profit ♦ make a profit on ♦ make profit ♦ margin of profit ♦ neat profit ♦ net profit ♦ operating profit ♦ paper profit ♦ pocket the profit ♦ profit account ♦ profit advantage ♦ profit and loss ♦ profit and loss account ♦ profit and loss statement ♦ profit arising from inflation ♦ profit balance ♦ profit balance to be carried forward ♦ profit brought forward ♦ profit by ♦ profit by & ♦ profit carried forward ♦ profit carried forward from previous year ♦ profit centre ♦ profit distribution ♦ profit from ♦ profit from dividends ♦ profit margin ♦ profit rate ♦ profit recognised on completed contracts ♦ profit share ♦ profit sharing ♦ profit sharing scheme ♦ profit sharing,incentive renumeration ♦ profit smb. ♦ profit taker ♦ profit taking ♦ profit tax ♦ R&D researchers in the private non profit sector at a given point in time ♦ R&D technicians and other R&D staff in the private non profit sector at a given point in time ♦ rate of profit ♦ realised profit ♦ realized profit ♦ reap a profit ♦ super profit ♦ tight profit margins ♦ to turn to profit ♦ trade profit margin ♦ trading profit ♦ windfall profit ♦ with a view to profit. Additional references.

Beginning with "profit": profit-achievements, profit-and-loss, profit-and-loss statement, profit-based, profit-bashing, profit-bringing, profit-capital, profit-centre, profit-centred, profit-centres, profit-conscious, profit-decision, profit-driven, profit-earner, profit-earners, profit-earning, profit-earning capacity, profit-friendly, profit-generating, profit-goals, profit-governed, profit-hungry, profit-improver, profit-linked, profit-loss, profit-makers, profit-making, profit-margin, profit-maximisation, profit-maximisers, profit-maximising, profit-maximization, profit-maximize, profit-maximizer, profit-maximizing, profit-minded, profit-mission, profit-motivated, profit-motive, profit-orientated, profit-oriented, profit-reducing, profit-related, profit-sacrificing, profit-seeking, profit-share, profit-sharing, profit-standard, profit-taker, profit-takers, profit-taking, profit-taking-the, profit-to-cost, profit-winning, profit-yielding.

Ending with "profit": high-profit, not-for-profit, with-profit.

Containing "profit": non-profit institution, non-profit making.

Afrikaans

wins (gain), profyt (benefit, gain), belang (account, advantage, benefit, concern, gain, interest), baat (account, advantage, avail, benefit, gain). (various references)

Albanian

përfitoj (presume), përfitim (advantage, benefit, good, percentage, perk, perquisite), leverdi (account, advantage, gain, interest, utility), jap fitim, hair (gain, utility), fitoj (carry off, come by, come into, command, earn, fight down, gain, gain upon, get, get the best of, make, net, obtain, outfight, overcome, overthrow, possess, pull in, realize, score, score off, take, touch, win), fitim (benefit, earnings, gain, gainings, income, makings, payoff, percentage, return, salary, spoil, victory, wages). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فائدة (advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, good, increase, interest, living, pay off, pay-book, scoop, use, usefulness, usury, utility, welfare, worth), ‏كسب (acquire, acquiring, acquisition, attain, earn, earning, gain, gaining, get, get smth. off one's hands, harvest, obtain, obtaining, prize, reap, win, winning), ‏مكسب (jackpot, lucrative, profitable), ‏نفع (avail, instrumentation, serve, use, usefulness), ‏عائدة, ‏الفائدة, ‏الفرق بين سعر الشراء و سعرلبيع (margin), ‏إنتفع (utilize), ‏إستفاد (avail, avail oneself of, benefit, benefit by, capitalize, conclude, deduce, improve), ‏ثمرة (child, effect, fruit, gain, product, result, upshot), ‏ربح (account, bonus, draw, earning, gain, in pocket, increase, increment, jackpot, lucre, make, pay, payoff, pelf, percentage, pocket, prosperity, revenue, win). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спечелвам (acquire, attach, carry off, engage, enlist, fetch, gain, get, get the best of it, land, make, obtain, pot, purchase, win, win through), възползувам се (avail oneself of, embrace, take advantage of), от полза съм (advantage, boot, bring the grist to the mill), облага (avail, benefit, convenience), приход (earnings, increment, proceeds), принасям полза на, ползувам (avail, be use of, benefit, employ, serve, use), полза (account, advantage, avail, behoof, boot, expedience, expediency, favour, good, interest, use, utility, value, velvet), печеля (earn, gain, get, harvest, pull down, realize, score, take in, win), печалба (catch, earnings, gain, income, increase, increment, lucre, plunder, plus, prize, spoil, win, yield), изгода (account, advantage, convenience, gain, interest, lucre, plunder, spoil), извличам полза (gain), доход (earnings, emolument, income, issue, yield), докарвам полза на. (various references)

Chinese 

赢利 (Profited, Profiting, profits), 裨益 (advantage, benefit), 盈余 (surplus), 盈利 (gain), �"�益 (earnings), 成果 (achievement, gain, result), 嬴 (full, win), 利 (advantage, benefit, sharp). (various references)

Czech

prospìch (advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, good, grades, interest, welfare, well), profit, zisk (earnings, emolument, gain, lucre, winning), vydìlávat na, tìžit (exploit, extract, quarry), mít prospìch. (various references)

Danish

profitere. (various references)

Dutch

winst (benefit, gain), verdienste (benefit, gain, income, merit, salary, wage, wages), gewin (benefit, gain), baat (account, advantage, benefit, gain). (various references)

Esperanto

profito (gain), profiti, gajno (benefit, gain). (various references)

Farsi 

فایده رساندن (Benefit), فایده (Advantage, Avail, Fruit, Use, Utter), منفعت بردن , منفعت (Benefit, Gain, Payoff), مزیت (Advantage, Ascendency, Excellence, Preference, Prepayment, Privilege, Vantage), سودبردن (Gain), سود (Advantage, Avail, Dividend, Fruit, Gain, Good, Grist, Increment, Interest, Lucre, Utter), عایدی داشتن , برتری (Advantage, Excellence, Excellency, Influence, Majesty, Power, Predominance, Preference, Prepayment, Primacy, Priority, Prominence, Supremacy, Trancscendent, Upperhand, Vantage). (various references)

Finnish

voitto (gain, prize, proceeds, return, triumph, victory), tuotto (returns, yield), hyötyä (benefit). (various references)

French

profit, gain (priming), bénéfice (net profit), avantage. (various references)

Frisian

fertsjinst (gain, salary, wage, wages), baat (gain). (various references)

German

Gewinn (advantage, asset, benefit, gain, income, prize, return, spoil, spoils, surplus, win, winnings, yield), Nutzen (account, advantage, avail, be of use, be useful, benefit, fruit, gain, good, make use of, take advantage of, to deploy, use, usefulness, utility, utilize, value), Vorteil (account, advantage, avail, benefit, gain, good, perk, Van, vantage, virtue), Verdienst (benefit, contribution, credit, earnings, gain, income, makings, merit, meritoriousness, service), profitieren (benefit, capitalize, gain, to profit), Ertrag (earnings, gain, harvest, income, output, proceeds, produce, return, yield). (various references)

Greek 

κέρδος (gain), ωφέλεια (benefit, gain, utility), απολαβή (gain, income, salary). (various references)

Hebrew 

יתרון (advantage, gain, odds, plus, preponderance, superiority), ל�"רויח (bring relief, earn, gain, make a profit, pocket), תועלת (advantage, avail, behalf, benefit, gain, good, sake, use, usefulness, utility, value), תבוא�" (crop, grain, harvest, income, produce, yield), שלל (booty, gain, haul, loot, pillage, plunder, spoil, take, trophy), שכר (earnings, fare, fee, pay, payment, remuneration, reward, salary, wage), פרי (fruit, gain, offspring, product, result), ברכ�" (beatitude, benediction, benefit, blessing, boon, congratulation, felicitation, gift, greeting, hail, luck, salute), בצע (avarice, covetousness, gain, greed, lucre). (various references)

Hungarian

haszon (advantage, avail, benefit, boot, earnings, emoluments, gain, gainings, gains, lucre, plunder, proceeds, return, spoil, use, utility). (various references)

Icelandic

vinningur (gain). (various references)

Indonesian

pamrih (purpose, reward, what one is after), untung (fortunate, fortune, lucky), melabakan (benefit something), kemaslahatan (benefit), faedah (avail). (various references)

Italian

profitto (account, advantage, benefit, gain, proceeds, return, utility, yield), guadagno (accession, account, acquisition, advantage, benefit, earning, earnings, gain, increment, proceeds, reward), vantaggio (account, advantage, asset, avail, behoof, benefit, boon, convenience, forehand, gain, odds, perk, plus, selling point, start, stead, usefulness, utility, vantage, virtue), beneficio (account, advantage, behoof, benefit, blessing, gain, good, kindness), approfittare (impose on, profit by, take advantage, take advantage of), utile (advantageous, advantagious, convenient, expedient, gains, helpful, instrumental, interest, of use, serviceable, subservient, suitable, useful, usefull, worthwhile). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

潤い (damp, gain, moisture, wetness), 利潤 (returns). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

わり (10%, assignment, percentage, proportion, rate, ratio, unit of ten percent), えきき�", とく (gain, hide, interest, shelter, shield, to advocate, to answer, to dissolve, to explain, to persuade, to preach, to solve, to untie), とりえ (gain, merit, redeeming feature, worth), とりどく (gain, merit, worth), とくぶ�" (share, winnings), みょうみ (charm, exquisite), じつり (gain, practical theory or principle, use, utility), えき (advantage, battle, being beneficial, benefit, campaign, divination, fluid, fortune-telling, gain, large, liquid, station, use, war), やく (about, advantage, approximately, bad luck, being beneficial, benefit, disaster, evil, gain, misfortune, position, role, service, some, to bake, to be envious of, to be jealous of, to grill, use), プロフィット , り (2.44 miles, advantage, an official, benefit, clever, diarrhea, diarrhoea, ill-mannered, interest, reason, ri, rustic), りとく (amplification, benefit, gain), りじゅ�" (returns), うるおい (damp, gain, moisture, wetness), うるおす (to benefit, to enrich, to moisten, to wet), さいさ�" (again and again, repeatedly), べ�"えき (benefit, convenience), もうけ (earnings, establishment, preparation, provision). (various references)

Korean 

이익 (Avail, Behalf, GAIN, profits). (various references)

Manx

vondeishal (avail, benefit), vondeish (acquisition, advantage, benefit, expediency, gain, usefulness), lhiass (advantage, advantage upper hand, benefit, need, welfare), jannoo vondeish da. (various references)

Norwegian

gagn (benefit, gain). (various references)

Papiamen

ganashi (benefit, gain). (various references)

Pig Latin

ofitpray

Portuguese

lucro (avail, benefit, cleanup, emolument, gain, interest, lucre, plunder, return, yield), saldo positivo (credit balance, overplus, surplus), proveito (acquisition, advantage, avail, benefit, boot, fruit, gain, good, improvement, interest, return, stead). (various references)

Romanian

profita (gain, impose), profit (account, advantage, bargain, behoof, benefit, boot, convenience, Favor, favour, gain, good, grist, hand, interest, job, return, use, velvet, yield), socotealã (account, bill, calculation, cast, check, computation, consideration, count, counting, idea, offset, pay off, reckoning, reflection, shot, supposition), se folosi (avail oneself of, improve, obtain, partake of, profit by, put forth, repair to), scofalã (benefit), noimã (aim, sense), folos (account, advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, boot, catch, efficaciousness, emolument, gain, service, stead, use, utility), fi de folos (avail, be of service to), dobândã (gain, interest, proceeds), câştig (advantage, bargain, benefit, boot, catch, draw, earnings, gain, godsend, hand, income, increment, lucre, penny, prize, proceeds, return, revenue, share, use, velvet, windfall), beneficiu (advantage, benefit, gain, proceeds, return), beneficia (benefit), avantaj (account, advantage, avail, benefit, boon, convenience, edge, gain, good, interest, odds, plus, point, vantage), agonisealã (acquisition, earnings, fortune, riches, savings). (various references)

Russian 

корысть (profit motive, self interest, self-interest), выгода (account, advantage, avail, benefit, catch, interest, velvet), начисления, барыш (gain, grist, lucre, plunder), прибыльный (commercial, gainful, lucrative, profit taking, profitable), прибыль (earnings, gain, gainings, head, increment, lucre, margin, return), поживиться, польза (advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, favor, favour, good, use, wholesomeness), доход (gain, gainings, income, incomings, proceeds, profitability, profits, rent, revenue, yield). (various references)

Scottish

probhaid, tairbhe (advantage, usefulness), leas (advantage, benefit, improvement, the thigh; collectively : leasraidh), buannaich (benefit, win), buannachd (benefit, gain), acartha. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

profitirati, profit (makings), zarada (earnings, gainings, return, salary), unos, koristiti (benefit, profit by, tap, trade on, use), korist (avail, availability, behalf, benefit, boon, interest, prize, sake, stead, utility, value), izvući profit, dobit (gain, lucre, makings, prize). (various references)

Spanish

provecho (account, advantage, avail, benefit, disadvantage, gain, interest, percentage), ganancia (accession, acquisition, asset, benefit, earning, gain, haul, moneymaking, return, revenue), beneficio (advantage, benefaction, benefice, benefit, blessing, bonus, dividend, gain, interest, leak, living, proceeds, revenue), lucro (advantage, benefit, earnings, lucre, moneymaking, proceeds), ganar (beat, benefit, best, carry, carry off, deserve, draw, earn, gain, get, get the best of, head, land, make, make money, put over, reclaim, save, take, take on, throw in, walk over, win, win out, win the toss), aprovecharse (profiteer). (various references)

Sranan

wini (benefit, earn, gain, win). (various references)

Swahili

faida (gain). (various references)

Swedish

vinst (gain, prize, scoop, win, yield), vinning (gain, pelf), förtjänst (credit, desert, deserts, earnings, emolument, gain, gainings, merit, payoff, taking, win), fördel (account, advantage, asset, behoof, benefit, edge, gain, pull, use, Van, virtue), behållning (balance, remainder, residue, surplus). (various references)

Turkish

yararlanmak (avail oneself of smth., benefit, capitalize, enjoy, impose, make use of, parlay, pass over, pass up, practice on, practice upon, practise on, practise upon, profit by, put account, refer, rejoice in, take advantage of, turn to account, use, utilize), yararı olmak (avail, help, redound), yaramak (agree, agree with, avail, be of service to, benefit, correspond, do for, lend itself to, serve, suit), menfaat (advantage, benefit, expedience, expediency, stake, the main chance, use), kazanç (acquirement, acquisition, avails, benefit, capital, convenience, credit, earnings, gain, gainings, grist, income, increment, make, melon, proceeds, receipt, revenues, spoil, takings, winnings, yield), kâr getirmek (sell at a premium), kâr etmek (be in pocket, bring profit, gain, net, realize, reap a profit), kâr (avail, avails, benefit, capital, catch, fruit, gain, gainings, increment, melon, pay dirt, return), getiri (gainings, premium, proceeds, return, yield), fayda (advantage, avail, benefit, grist, handiness, service, stead, use, usefulness, utility), çıkar (advantage, benefit, capital, expedience, expediency, grist to the mill, interest, number one, self, stake). (various references)

Turkmen 

utuю (winnings), nebis (advantage, gain), haяyr (benefit, use), dьюewьnt, bдhbit (advantage, gain). (various references)

Ukrainian

скористатися (avail oneself of, improve, partake, snatch), користь (account, advantage, avail, benefit, convenience, emolument, gain, good, use), користуватися (enjoy, make use of, participate, take, wield), відсотки, вигода (accommodation, account, advantage, avail, behoof, boot, capital, emolument, spoil), одержувати користь (benefit), нарахування, мати користь (gain), бариш (grist, lucre, plunder), прибуток (bacon, benefit, debtor, earnings, emolument, gainings, getting, income, increment, proceeds), давати користь (benefit). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lợi nhuận, lợi ích (interest, sake), lợi (benefit, gain, lucre), bổ ích tiền lãi. (various references)

Welsh

proffidio, proffid, mael (gain, traffic), llesa+d (advantage, benefit), lles (advancement, advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, boot, good), ennill (acquire, attain, best, earn, earnings, gain, win), elwa (benefit, gain), elw (behoof, benefit, boot, gain, possession), buddio (avail), budd (advancement, avail, behoof, benefit, gain). (various references)

3. ma�. (various references)

lucrum. (various references)

saoka. (various references)

perquisitum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "profit": profitabilities, profitability, profitable, profitableness, profitablenesses, profitably, profited, profiteer, profiteered, profiteering, profiteers, profiter, profiterole, profiteroles, profiters, profiting, profitless, profits, profitwise. (additional references)

Words ending with "profit": nonprofit, superprofit. (additional references)

Words containing "profit": antiprofiteering, nonprofits, superprofits, unprofitable, unprofitableness, unprofitablenesses, unprofitably. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Profit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bramfitt, brisfit, Brumfitt, Orcofi, Perfitt, poofie, Porfert, Poritt, Porrit, prait, Prakit, prefat, prfoit, prift, probit, procity, Prodip, profant, profet, profett, proffet, proffit, proffitt, Profid, profil, profir, profite, profitt, profix, profrt, proft, profu, profy, prosit, prosite, Provita, Rohit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fort, frit, port, prof, rift, riot, roti, tiro, topi, tori, trio, trip, trop.

-3 letters: fir, fit, fop, for, fro, oft, opt, ort, pit, poi, pot, pro, rif, rip, rot, tip, top, tor.

-4 letters: if, it, of, op, or, pi, ti, to.

+1 letter: firepot, piefort, profits, sportif.

+2 letters: firepots, offprint, piedfort, pieforts, postfire, profited, profiter.

+3 letters: footprint, hoofprint, nonprofit, offprints, piedforts, pitchfork, portfolio, prenotify, profanity, profiteer, profiters, profiting.

+4 letters: factorship, fiberoptic, fingerpost, footprints, fortepiano, hoofprints, lightproof, nonprofits, offprinted, perfection, perfoliate, pianoforte, pitchforks, portfolios, proficient, profitable, profitably, profiteers, profitless, profitwise, profligate, profundity, shoplifter, stainproof, toploftier.

+5 letters: factorships, fetoprotein, fiberoptics, fingerposts, fortepianos, imperforate, offprinting, pacificator, parfocality, patelliform, perfections, perforating, perforation, pestiferous, pettifogger, pianofortes, pitchforked, postforming, prenotified, prenotifies, profanation, profanities, proficients, profiteered, profiterole, profligates, proliferate, prolificity, purificator, shoplifters, superprofit.