paper profit

1. 1.

   an unrealized gain on an investment calculated by subtracting the investor's cost from the current market price

   Antonymspaper loss

   Broadergain

Questions about paper profit

What does paper profit mean?

paper profit means "an unrealized gain on an investment calculated by subtracting the investor's cost from the current market price".

What is the opposite of paper profit?

The recorded antonyms are paper loss.

Is paper profit a common word?

paper 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.