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# profit

«profit» in Mova's school dictionary: **the money you have left after you take away what you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a profit, profits; also uncountable); verb (profit, profits, profited, profiting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Profit is the money you have left after you take away what you spent from what you earned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#m1)

2) (verb) To profit is to make money from something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#m2)

3) (verb) To profit from something can mean to gain or learn something good from it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#m3)

4) Profit can also mean a benefit or good result, not only money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths money problems, profit = selling price − cost price. If the costs are bigger, there is a loss instead. At a school fair pupils work out the profit from a cake stall. In business people talk about making a profit. Phrases: make a profit, profit and loss, at a profit, profit from.

### examples

- We sold lemonade and made a profit of $12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x1)
- The cakes cost £10 to make and sold for £25, so the profit was £15. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x2)
- If you sell it for less than it cost, you make a loss, not a profit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x3)
- The shop's profits went up this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x4)
- Everyone can profit from reading more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x5)
- The charity profited from the school's fun run. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x6)
- Work out the total profit from the bake sale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x7)
- He sold his old bike at a profit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x8)
- Evil companions bring more hurt than profit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/#x9)

### note

Profit = money in − money out; a negative result is called a loss. Regular verb: profited (one t), profiting. Homophone: «prophet» (a person who foretells or speaks for God) — same sound, different meaning. In maths: «profit per item» × number of items = total profit.

### In the corpora

- [Many people mix up takings and profit; profit is only what is left after costs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/14/)
- ["All hard work brings a profit" (Proverbs 14:23): making a cheat sheet carefully can teach you everything on it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/94-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat/18/)
- [A machine has an owner, so keeping a machine's mistake profits from someone's loss.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/95-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet/12/)
- [Profit is the money a business has left after paying all its costs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/8/)
- [And Judah said unto his brethren: 'What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1204/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «profit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/profit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.