From en.wiktionary.org:
[Profit]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en] (Modern [fr]), from [en], from [la]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [prŏfʹit] , [en]
- [prŏʹfit] , [en]
- [en]
- [prŏfʹit] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
[en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] Total income or cash flow minus expenditure s. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
2. * 1750 OCT. 2 , [Samuel Johnson] , _[The Rambler]_ :
3. *: Let no man anticipate uncertain PROFITS .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1935 | author=w:Smedley Butler | title=w:War Is a Racket | pages=1 & 7
|passage=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.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. [en] Benefit, positive result obtained.
4. * [1 Corinthians]
5. * [IV]
6. [en] [en] [en] .
**** Usage notes
Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative, the term _loss_
is preferred. _Negative profit_ does appear in microeconomics. Profit by a
government agency is called a surplus.
**** Synonyms
- [en]
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[benefit]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Ewe: [ee]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [North Korea] , [ko] , [ko] [North Korea]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Mongolian:
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Norwegian:
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu] , [cu]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps] , [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [obsolete] [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Zazaki: [zza]
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[total income or cash flow minus expenditures]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
2. * [Hebrews]
3. * [passage=It is a great means of PROFITING yourself, to copy diligently those excellent pieces and beautiful designs.]
4. [en] To benefit , gain .
5. [en] To take advantage of, exploit , use .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[To benefit, be of use to]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] [+ partitive] , [fi] [+ allative] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] [+ allative]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
[trans-bottom]
[To benefit, gain]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] [+ elative] , [fi] [+ allative]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[To take advantage of, exploit, use]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
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[checktrans-top]
- French: [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Telugu: [te]
- Turkish: [tr]
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*** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Catalan
*** Etymology
From [ca].
*** Pronunciation
- [ca-IPA]
- [ca]
*** Noun
[m]
1. benefit , advantage
**** Derived terms
- [ca]
- [ca]
- [ca]
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
- [R:ca:GDLC]
- [R:ca:DNV]
- [R:ca:DCVB]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], from [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. profit , benefit
**** Derived terms
{{col3|fr |au profit de |il n'y a pas de petits profits |mettre à profit
|tirer profit}}
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Hungarian
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [hu].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [hu-IPA]
- [hu]
- [hu]
*** Noun
[ok]
1. [en] [total income or cash flow minus expenditures]
**** Declension
[profito][profit]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Zaicz 2006]
[2]. [R:pl:WSWO]
[3]. [R:pl:SJPD]
*** Further reading
- [R:ErtSz]
** Norman
*** Etymology
From [nrf], from [nrf].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nrf] profit
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl] [pl].[2][3]
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-profit.ogg]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [pl] [en] [money acquired]
2. [pl] [en] [benefit, positive result obtained]
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-in]
**** Related terms
[pl]
*** References
[reflist]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
- [R:pl:SJP1807]
- [R:pl:SJP1861]
- [1009]
- [R:pl:NFJP]
[pl]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[ro-noun-n-uri]
** Serbo-Croatian
*** Pronunciation
- [pròfīt]
- [sh]
*** Noun
[pròfīt]
1. [en]
**** Declension
{{sh-decl-noun |pròfīt|profiti |profíta|profita |profitu|profitima
|profit|profite |profite|profiti |profitu|profitima |profitom|profitima }}
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv], from [sv], from [sv]. Attested since 1487.
*** Noun
[c]
1. [sv] [en] , unearned income
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
**** Related terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** References
- [saol]
- [so]
- [saob]
** Tok Pisin
*** Etymology
From [tpi].
*** Noun
[tpi]
1. [en]
2. interest