gross profit margin

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgross profitmargin

   Broadernet income

   corporate finance

Questions about gross profit margin

What does gross profit margin mean?

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

What is another word for gross profit margin?

Close synonyms include gross 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 profit margin a common word?

gross profit 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.