profit

1. 1.

   derive a benefit from

   “She profited from his vast experience”

   Synonymsgainbenefit

   Broaderget

   Narrowercash in onprofiteercapitalizepyramidnet
2. 2.

   make a profit; gain money or materially

   “The company has not profited from the merger”

   Synonymsturn a profit

   Antonymslosebreak even

   Broadergain

   Narrowerline one's pocketsturn a nice dimeclean up

Other forms of profit

plural

profits·

past tense

profitted·

present participle

profitting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about profit

What does profit mean?

profit means "the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in profit?

profit has 2 syllables: pro-fit. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɑfət/.

What is another word for profit?

Close synonyms include net income, net, net profit, lucre, 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.

What is the opposite of profit?

The recorded antonyms are lose, break even.

Is profit a common word?

profit is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with profit?

2 words rhyme with profit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.