margin of profit

1. 1.

   the ratio gross profits divided by net sales

   Synonymsprofit margingross margin

   Broaderratio

Questions about margin of profit

What does margin of profit mean?

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

What is another word for margin of profit?

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

margin of 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.