(n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
(n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
(n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(4) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(5) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(6) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(7) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(8) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(9) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(10) Our positive experiences with IMACS discussed above should be even more profound and profitable for the larger medical institutions.
(11) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(12) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(13) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(14) Knowing the risks of transporting cocaine from Africa to the US, and given the slim profit margin, “tell me who will be doing that kind of deal?” Chigbo asked.
(15) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(16) This year we are growing at more than 20% in terms of volume, but the issue is profit margin.
(17) But without the US business, it will be more reliant on its European business, as well as being less profitable.
(18) Such tales of publicly subsidised private profits very much fit with the wider picture of relations between the City and the nation.
(19) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(20) Where the taxpayer will pay now have to pay replace all the ageing power stations the privates sector has profited from for the last 30 years.
Resale
Definition:
(n.) A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.
Example Sentences:
(1) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(2) Murabaha works by the bank supplying goods for resale to the customer at a price that includes a margin above the costs, and allows them to repay in installments.
(3) Many resale practices are legitimate, but others may constitute illegal drug diversion.
(4) Thinkbroadband editor Andrew Ferguson said: "Developers are starting to see a broadband impact on rental and resale prices.
(5) It also noted that resale restrictions were ignored by secondary sites.
(6) Uruguay's president, José Mujica, had asked that no details be released until the regulations were finally published on Friday or Monday, but an official in the drug control office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 10g weekly limit was intended to thwart illegal resales.
(7) Michel Platini, the Uefa president who is alleged to have accepted a £1.3m “disloyal payment” from Blatter , and Jérôme Valcke, the Fifa secretary general embroiled in allegations around the resale of World Cup tickets , received the same sanction.
(8) 29 October The UK transport secretary says VW must consider offering compensation to motorists whose VW vehicle has lost some of its resale value.
(9) No doubt looking at other digital media brands, from iTunes to Netflix, to the PC gaming service Steam, Microsoft envisaged a future where games would go entirely digital; where consumers would be free from paying $60 for a physical disc and then losing money on its depreciated resale.
(10) A quarter of the drug sales were for listings worth more than $1,000 (£768), the team found, suggesting that these shipments may have been bought for resale.
(11) Updated at 11.23am GMT 11.18am GMT Cable rejects the analogy that the government has effectively sold a house too cheaply, using two advisors who pocketed two lots of commission and then made money on the resale price.
(12) The rate of ultraviolet-induced dimer excision was slightly reduced, relative to that found in Pol+ strains, in the PolAl strains; greatly reduced in the PolA107 strains; and found not to occur in the resAl strain.
(13) The face value of tickets for the first round is £54 to £105, but for less attractive matches, particularly in the north of Brazil, they are on resale sites at £10 upwards.
(14) But that’s just a wish – without a resale royalty that’s plugged back into the market or government coffers, it’s all dead money propping up a system that values a very limited range of art.
(15) The legal implications of and restrictions on hospital resales of pharmaceuticals are analyzed to help hospital managers distinguish between legitimate drug redistribution and illegal drug diversion and, thus, enable them to conform to the law in their own resale practices.
(16) It is now far more difficult to remove a CD player or radio from a car, and resale values have plummeted.
(17) Matt DeLorenzo, from Kelley Blue Book, said that it will take a while for the issue to sort itself out, both in terms of resale value and what the EPA will expect for emissions testing.
(18) Another trial the VW diesel crowd faces is in the coming weeks and months is what will become of their cars’ resale values.
(19) The requirements of the Robinson-Patman Act regarding resales are discussed, and the application of those requirements is explained.
(20) But the oligarchs do help keep the resale market buoyant.