profit
English
/ˈpɹɒfɪt/, /ˈpɹɑfɪt/
noun
Definitions
- (accounting) 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.
- (dated) Benefit, positive result obtained.
- (legal) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English profit derived from Old French profit derived from Latin profectus (advance, growth, increase, progress, profit).
Origin
Latin
profectus
Gloss
advance, growth, increase, progress, profit
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
殖
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- disprofit English
- making English
- megaprofit English
- non-profit English
- nonprofit English
- nonprofitization English
- profiteer English
- profiter English
- profitest English
- profiteth English
- profitless English
- profitlessly English
- profitlessness English
- profitmaking English
- profitseeking English
- profitsome English
- profitwise English
- seeking English
- superprofit English
- unprofit English
- unprofitable English
- profecticius Latin
- profectus Latin
- prōfectus Latin
- profit French
- profiter French
- profiterole French
- aprovechar Spanish, Castilian
- provecho Spanish, Castilian
- profitt Norwegian Bokmål
- profitt Norwegian Nynorsk
- profit Middle English
- profit Old French
- proveito Galician
- profijt Middle Dutch
- profit Norman
- proveito Old Portuguese
- profit Tok Pisin