gross margin

1. 1.

   the ratio gross profits divided by net sales

   Synonymsmargin of profitprofit margin

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Questions about gross margin

What does gross margin mean?

gross margin means "the ratio gross profits divided by net sales".

What is another word for gross margin?

Close synonyms include margin of profit, profit margin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gross margin a common word?

gross margin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.