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Definition: Profit |
ProfitNoun1. 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. Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
Business | The profit balance(at the disposal of the Annual General Meeting)includes the net profit of the financial year according to profit and loss account and the profit carried forward form previous year. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | The economic realization of outputs of a system. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | The excess of income over all costs and expenses. (references) |
Mining | When one speaks of the interest on a mining investment, the rate mentioned ordinarily consists of the normal rate plus a substantial additional rate that represents the profit that should accrue in proportion to the hazardous nature of the mining business. In this sense, the rate of interest in most forms of mining should be high; to be satisfied with lessthan 10% annually would show a lack of acumen. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It can be considered as payment for having made available the net investment (like interest), payment for the risk, and, if not already accounted for as costs, for the work the worker has done. This could be back-breaking work, or it could be of the more cerebral kind.
In neo-classical economics, there are a number of different kinds of profit:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Profit."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PROFIT | English | Process Plant Reliable Operations Facilitated/enhanced by Information Technology | Computing, European Union |
| PROM | English | Profit optimizing model | N/A |
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Synonyms: ProfitSynonyms: earnings (n), lucre (n), net (n), net income (n), net profit (n), profits (n), benefit (v), gain (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: break even (v), lose (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Profit |
| English words defined with "profit": profit and loss, profit and loss account, profit taker ♦ windfall profit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "profit": anticipated profit ♦ cost volume profit analysis ♦ distributed profit ♦ estimated profit ♦ profit and loss statement, profit arising from inflation, profit balance, profit center accounting, profit in sight, profit sharing,incentive renumeration ♦ realised profit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "profit": Unprofit. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Profit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | 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) | |
Lyrics | 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) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Adultery for Fun and Profit (1970) Crossbreeding for Profit (1961) Credit for Profit (1961) The Greater Profit (1921) Profit and the Loss (1917) | |
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![]() | 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. |
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| Author | Quotation |
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal | The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source. |
Charles F. Abbott | Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. |
Duc de La Rochefoucauld | We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. |
Horace | Poets wish to profit or to please. |
Pliny The Elder | The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. |
Publilius Syrus | Many receive advice, few profit by it. |
Terence | Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself. |
Thomas Hobbes | In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. |
| Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | 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) |
US Constitution | 1791 | 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) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | 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. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had an idea of calling the guard, but Jean Valjean might profit by his absence to escape. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I write without any view towards profit or praise. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting," as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I believe criminals should not be able to profit from screenplays and books based on their crimes. |
Gloria Allred | There's a new law that's going to take effect in January, kind of, amending the old son of Sam law. And it will allow convicted murderers to write a book, but the victims should be the ones that profit from any book, if there are profits. |
Rush Limbaugh | Clinton-Gore lied about how much profit the government took in by almost one-third so they could help Gore hold the White House. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The nation should therefore derive the profit proceeding from the continual rise in their value. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | Nor does there seem to be any material difference of opinion as to the absence of right in the Government to tax one section of country, or one class of citizens, or one occupation, for the mere profit of another. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We are to beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I urge the Congress to enact a windfall profits tax by that date to ensure that oil producers do not profit unduly. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Dairy farmers began to earn a profit again. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Government must never again use inflation to profit at the people's expense. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Profit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.92% of the time. "Profit" is used about 5,733 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.92% | 5,384 | 1,818 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.82% | 334 | 15,701 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.24% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,733 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "profit" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Profit | Last name | 1,000 | 9,647 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "profit". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Onesiphorus | N/A | Biblical | Who brings profit |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Profit Recovery Group International, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
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. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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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 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) 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) 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) probhaid, tairbhe (advantage, usefulness), leas (advantage, benefit, improvement, the thigh; collectively : leasraidh), buannaich (benefit, win), buannachd (benefit, gain), acartha. (various references) 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) 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) |