Collocations for "profits"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "profits" 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
'profits' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
aggregate
- assess
- billion
- bottom
- charity
- chart
- cut
- derive
- direction
- dive
- divide
- division
- double
- estimated
- exclusive
- fat
- fourth
- grow
- impact
- jump
- leap
- middle
- nil
- offset
- outweigh
- piece
- plot
- plunge
- point
- portion
- posting
- profit
- project
- quarry
- quarter
- quarterly
- rack
- reap
- rebound
- reckon
- relative
- remittance
- second
- share
- sharply
- shrinking
- skid
- skim
- skinny
- slide