gross profit

1. 1.

   (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold

   Synonymsgross profit marginmargin

   Broadernet income

   corporate finance

Questions about gross profit

What does gross profit mean?

gross profit means "(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold".

What is another word for gross profit?

Close synonyms include gross profit margin, 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 profit a common word?

gross profit 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.