net profit

Questions about net profit

What is another word for net profit?

It depends which net profit you mean. In the sense “the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)”, the synonyms are net income, net, lucre, profit, profits, earnings. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of net profit?

WordNet records no antonym for net profit. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for net profit come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of net profit

• Full entry for net profitAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for net profitWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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