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profit
Part of speech: Adjective Part of speech: NounMoney gain; amount by which income exceeds expense in a given time; benefit or advantage.
Part of speech: VerbTo benefit; to be of service to.
Part of speech: VerbTo receive benefit; gain; improve; to be of use; bring good.
Usage examples "profit":- They are works which the oldest and the youngest may alike read with pleasure and profit. - "Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life", Ann S. Stephens.
- And, in the next place, as you brought me this news I think it only right that you should be the one to profit by it. - "The Log of a Privateersman", Harry Collingwood.
- Please tell us just how the profit system led to this result. - "Equality", Edward Bellamy.