profit margin

1. 1.

   the ratio gross profits divided by net sales

   Synonymsmargin of profitgross margin

   Broaderratio

Questions about profit margin

What does profit margin mean?

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

What is another word for profit margin?

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

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.