turn a profit

1. 1.

   make a profit; gain money or materially

   “The company has not profited from the merger”

   Synonymsprofit

   Broadergain

   Narrowerline one's pocketsturn a nice dimeclean up

Questions about turn a profit

What does turn a profit mean?

turn a profit means "make a profit; gain money or materially".

What is another word for turn a profit?

Close synonyms include profit. 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 turn a profit a common word?

turn a 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.