Collocations for "profit"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "profit" in context.
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profit
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [large, small, big, narrow, slight, huge, massive] profit
- the company [recorded, announced, made, posted] a (large) profit
- [earn, make, report] a [large] profit
- the [total, net, gross, year-on-year, operating] profit
- the [quarterly, monthly, yearly, annual] profit
- a [10] -[percent, point, dollar] profit
- a profit of [10] [percent]
- they made a profit on the [house, sale, investment, product]
- profits are [up, down, steady] this year
- profits are [up] on last year
- what profit is there in [dishonesty, pretending]?
- profits on [sales, earnings, income]
- profit made on [sales]
- profits before [tax, deductions, commissions, costs]
- (net) profit after [tax]
- a [non, not for] profit organization
- profit from your [products, services]
- (could) profit from a [marketing campaign, TV commercial]
- profit from the [loses, work, mistakes] of others
- profit from illegal [activity, deals, negotiations]
- profit from [favorable, lenient, opportunist] conditions
- profit through [sales, deals, contracts]
- profit [enormously, greatly, immensely, handsomely]
- [will, should, stands to] profit [enormously]
- who stands to profit (from)
- who is profiting from [the war, this]?
- the [business, company] is (finally) profiting
'profit' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
February
- January
- adjust
- big
- billion
- bloated
- cut
- decrease
- ending
- equal
- estimate
- fetch
- greed
- gross
- handsome
- hefty
- hit
- improve
- increase
- job
- margin
- merchandise
- milk
- net
- operating
- post
- project
- quarter
- rake
- return
- share
- shortfall
- slender
- slice
- slight
- slim
- tasty
- tidy
- total
- turn