Usually means: Revenue minus costs equals profit.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word profit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. profit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. profit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. profit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. profit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. profit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Profit, profit, profit: Wordnik
  7. profit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. profit: Wiktionary
  9. profit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. profit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. profit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. profit: Dictionary.com
  13. profit (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. profit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Profit (TV series), Profit (accounting), Profit (economics), Profit (magazine), Profit (real property), Profit (video game player), Profit, The Profit (TV series), The Profit (film), The Profit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Profit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. profit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. profit: Rhymezone
  19. Profit (m), profit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. profit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. profit: Free Dictionary
  22. profit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Profit, profit: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. profit: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. profit: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. profit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. PROFIT: Accounting Glossary
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Profit: Inflation Glossary
  9. Profit: Investopedia
  10. Profit (real estate), profit: Legal dictionary
  11. Profit (real estate), Profit: Financial dictionary
  12. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  13. Profit: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  15. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profit: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PROFIT: Acronym Finder
  3. profit: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PROFIT, Profit (tm), Profit, The Profit: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (accounting, economics) Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
noun:  (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
verb:  (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
verb:  (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
verb:  (intransitive, construed with from) To take advantage of, exploit, use.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (property law) Ellipsis of profit à prendre. [(property law) A nonpossessory interest in land which grants the legal right to enter onto another person's real property (real estate) for the purpose of taking from its soil, mines and minerals, natural produce or flora and fauna.]

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