(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.
Sturt
Definition:
(v. i.) To vex; to annoy; to startle.
(n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care.
(n.) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of them proceed from crossings between psychiatric case register and death-register, and concern inpatients only (Brook, Giel, Saugstad, Mortensen, Herman, Haugland, Rorsman, Sturt, Winokur, Zilber).
(2) An Australian Greens MP, David Shoebridge, told NSW parliament it was “offensive in the extreme” that Dines was associated with Charles Sturt University’s policing programs.
(3) Gove also announced the appointment of a new director of prison security, Claudia Sturt, that governors in four prisons will be allowed maximum autonomy under current legislation from July, and urged governors to make greater use of the temporary licence release scheme.
(4) A pattern similar to that previously found in a younger sample (Sturt, 1981) was evident.
(5) Dines declined to comment on his role at Charles Sturt University.
(6) Tuesday 21 June Details Sydney Date: Wednesday 15 June Times: 7pm-8.30pm Location: Giant Dwarf, 199 Cleveland Street, Chippendale Price: $30 Melbourne Date: Tuesday 21 June Times: 7pm-8.30pm Location: The Coopers Malthouse Theatre, 113 Sturt Street, Southbank Price: $30 Returns policy Tickets are non-refundable.
(7) In 2010, he was hired by the Australian graduate school of policing and security at Charles Sturt University, near Sydney, where he is the associate head of school.
(8) Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian “Was Charles Sturt University aware of John Dines past before they employed him?
(9) The University of Technology, Sydney, the Australian National University and Charles Sturt all provided estimates of 30% to Guardian Australia, while the University of Canberra predicted a 20% rise.
(10) A morphogenetic map based on these sturt distances resembles more closely in size and shape that of a single thoracic segment than that of two or more adjacent segments, suggesting that the eye-antenna disc is derived from a single embryonic body segment.
(11) Victorian artist Robert Ingpen included seven petals on the sturt desert rose when he designed the flag – one for each of the six current states and one, sitting at the top, representing the north as the inevitable seventh.
(12) Tobias Sturt was head of creative at the Guardian’s digital agency and is now creative director of Graphic.
(13) The Guardian can reveal that for the past five years he has been working at Australia’s leading graduate police college at Charles Sturt University in Sydney where he is a course director on training courses.
(14) Led by Tobias Sturt and Adam Frost from Graphic, a specialist data visualisation agency, this fantastic class comprises a series of lectures and workshops, plus opportunities to get expert feedback on your work.
(15) Victorian artist Robert Ingpen included seven petals on the sturt desert rose when he designed the emblem in 1978; a petal for each of the six current states and one – at the top of course – for the North as the inevitable seventh.
(16) The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, said he feared Abbott was “far more concerned about Christopher Pyne’s job [in the SA seat of Sturt] than the jobs of hundreds of Victorian shipbuilders”.
(17) We examined the pattern of gynandromorph mosaicism and determined the "sturt distances" between 42 different structures of the head, antenna, and maxillary palpus.
(18) He must cease any involvement with teaching police in this state before a similar apology is needed by the New South Wales police.” Charles Sturt University’s executive dean of the faculty of arts, professor Tracey Green, said Dines’s role at the university as a business manager was “solely administrative” and did not involve police training.