net profit

Questions about net profit

What does net profit mean?

net profit means "the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)".

What is another word for net profit?

Close synonyms include net income, net, lucre, profit, profits. 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 net profit a common word?

net 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.