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profit
total revenue less total expenses for a period of time calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Glossary of Business Terms
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Revenue minus cost. The amount one makes on a transaction. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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I. profit prof-it 1 [ˈprɒft ǁ ˈprɑː-] noun [countable, uncountable]
1. ACCOUNTING FINANCE money that you gain from selling something, or from doing business in a particular period of time, after taking away costs:

• A business has to make a profit.

• Since it was set up two years ago, the company hasn't earned a profit but could break even this year.

• Coca-Cola reported strong profits in the latest quarter.

• They will have to produce and sell more than 300,000 cars a year to turn (= make ) a profit on the model.

• We've got to see the economy recover, and we've got to see corporate profits (= those of companies in general ) increase.

• They controlled the market for the stock and drove it up to artificially high prices, netting themselves and others excess profits (= profits that people think are too high ) .

• The company said that sales and profits increased in four of its major divisions.

word focus - profit
Types of profit
Gain is the financial profit that a person or company makes. People often use the word 'gain' when they believe that money is the only thing that someone is interested in:

• Developers continue to cut down the forest for economic gain.

Proceeds are all the money that you get from selling something, or from something such as a show or sports event:

• The proceeds from the sale of the house went to his brother.

A surplus is the amount of money that remains after a company or organization has paid all its costs, charges, wages etc:

• The division's surplus last year was under $10 million.

Interest is an amount of profit that you make at an agreed rate when you put money into a bank or when you lend money to someone:

• The best rate of interest the banks can offer is around 7%.

Return is the total profit that you get as a result of putting money into a bank, company etc:

• How can I get the best return on my capital?

• Returns from farming have been declining for many years.

Yield is the exact amount of profit that you get as a result of lending money to a company, government etc:

• Shareholders should not expect a high yield this year.

2. first-quarter/​second-half/​etc profit ACCOUNTING FINANCE profits for the first three-month period, second six-month period etc of the financial year:

• The insurer recorded fourth-quarter profit of 86 cents a share, compared with year-earlier net income of 82 cents.

acˌcumulated ˈprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE
the profits a company has made in previous years and held in its reserves:

• The available reserves of its accumulated profit were reduced by workers' demands so that there was little money for capital investment.

after-ˈtax ˌprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE TAX
a company's profit after tax has been taken away:

• The decline in after-tax profit was the result of significantly higher tax charges.

ˈbook ˌprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE
1. a profit as shown in a company's accounts:

• Philips will report a book profit of about Fl1,800 million on its sale of shares in TSM.

2. a profit not in actual money, but from the increase in the value of an asset; = PAPER PROFIT:

• If the land was revalued and stated in the balance sheet at its current price, this would result in the company making a book profit.

conˌsolidated ˈprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE
in a group of companies, the total profit from all the companies in the group for a particular period of time:

• Solvay's consolidated profit fell 20% because of lower margins in its plastics sector.

disˌtributable ˈprofit also disˌtributed ˈprofit FINANCE ACCOUNTING
profit earned during a particular period of time that a company pays to shareholders:

• Preference dividends can be accumulated if there are not sufficient distributable profits to pay them in a particular financial year.

• There was a further reduction of corporation tax on reinvested income, while distributed profits remained taxable at 42%.

ˌgross ˈprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE TAX
a company's profit before certain costs and taxes are taken away:

• The insurer reported that gross profit, before taxes and losses on equity and foreign-exchange operations, edged down 1%.

ˌnet ˈprofit ACCOUNTING
the profit from a deal, or from business activity for a particular period of time, after all costs and taxes are taken away; = NET:

• Their contract stipulated that they were entitled to a fee of 41% of the film's net profit.

• Profit after tax, or net profit payable to shareholders, rose to £20.1 million.

ˈoperating ˌprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE
profit relating to a company's normal activities of providing goods or services:

• The company reported $3.9 million in operating profit before interest, cash and depreciation, on revenue of $15.3 million.

ˈpaper ˌprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE
an increase in the value of an investment, which is not an actual amount of money unless the investment is sold:

• Many investors are sitting on fat paper profits from the rally, and are worried about losing those profits if the market has peaked.

pre-ˈtax ˌprofit also pretax profit ACCOUNTING FINANCE TAX
profit for a particular period of time before tax is taken away:

• The company reported pretax profit of 175 billion yen, net of 94 billion yen on sales of 3.228 trillion yen.

ˌpure ˈprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE
real profit, with no costs to be taken away:

• Sponsorship income is pure profit for the club because there are no costs associated with it.

reˌtained ˈprofit ACCOUNTING FINANCE
net profit for a particular period of time, or for several periods of time, that is not paid to shareholders in Dividends; = UNDISTRIBUTED EARNINGS:

• Furr's wants to use retained profits for expansion and renovation.

ˌtaxable ˈprofit ACCOUNTING TAX
profit that can be legally taxed:

• Corporations can deduct their interest expenses from taxable profits.

ˈtrading ˌprofit
1. FINANCE ACCOUNTING the profit made by a financial institution from buying and selling investments:

• Both foreign-exchange trading profit and gains from the sales of securities were lower in the quarter.

2. ACCOUNTING another name for operating profit:

• BAT said trading profit from its commercial activities rose 28%.

undisˌtributed ˈprofit FINANCE ACCOUNTING
profit from a particular period of time, that is not paid to shareholders:

• Undistributed profits should be allowed to accumulate free of tax.

ˈwindfall ˌprofit ACCOUNTING
a profit gained from an unusual or unexpected event; = WINDFALL:

• Should the Automobile Association sell its commercial activities and distribute a windfall profit to its members?

  [m0] II. profit profit 2 verb [intransitive]
to gain money from an event, selling something etc:
profit by/​from something

• Tiger profited by anticipating the fall in the Tokyo stock market.

• Coca-Cola profited from a weaker dollar and higher sales overseas.

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   Company profit is the amount left after deducting the total costs from the total sales. It is usual to define profit more precisely, such as operating profit or net profit.

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profit UK US /ˈprɒfɪt/ noun [C or U] COMMERCE, FINANCE
money that is earned in trade or business, especially after paying the costs of producing and selling goods and services: »

The group has had an uneven record in recent years, swinging back and forth between profits and losses.

make/realize/turn a profit »

The company said it had made a profit of about £1.4bn on the deal.

after-tax/pre-tax profit »

Pre-tax profits rose 22.3% to £13.7m.

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The expectation is that both turnover and trading profit will have increased during last year.

sell sth at a profit »

A realized gain occurs when we sell an investment at a profit.

profit on sth »

He will make a $431m profit on the sale.

for profit »

Banks made new loans, then swiftly sold them off for profit, using the proceeds to extend still more.

report profits »

In the year to March the company reported profits after tax of €900,000.

profits fall/increase/rise »

Sales and profits rose last year.

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Concerns have been raised that a stagnating economy is hampering corporate profit growth.

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boost/increase profits

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an increase/jump/rise in profit

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a drop/fall in profit

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big/record/strong profits

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future/short-term/small profits

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annual/corporate/taxable profits

be in/come into profit — Cf. come into profit
first-half, first-quarter, etc. profit — Cf. first-half, first-quarter, etc. profit
pure profit — Cf. pure profit
See also ACCUMULATED PROFIT(Cf. ↑accumulated profit), ATTRIBUTABLE PROFIT(Cf. ↑attributable profit), BOOK PROFIT(Cf. ↑book profit), CONSOLIDATED PROFIT(Cf. ↑consolidated profit), DISTRIBUTABLE PROFIT(Cf. ↑distributable profit), DISTRIBUTED PROFIT(Cf. ↑distributed profit), FOR-PROFIT(Cf. ↑for-profit), GROSS PROFIT(Cf. ↑gross profit), NET PROFIT(Cf. ↑net profit), OPERATING PROFIT(Cf. ↑operating profit), PAPER PROFIT(Cf. ↑paper profit), RETAINED PROFIT(Cf. ↑retained profit), TAXABLE PROFIT(Cf. ↑taxable profit), WINDFALL(Cf. ↑windfall)
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profit UK US /ˈprɒfɪt/ verb [I]
to earn money from something: profit by sth/doing sth »

Traders can profit by buying the stocks back later at lower prices.

profit from sth/doing sth »

Many companies will profit from the fall in interest rates.

to gain an advantage from something: profit from sth/doing sth »

I profited enormously from working with her.


Financial and business terms. 2012.