Betekenis van profit In het Nederlands

• 0 money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods and services:

  • She makes a big profit from selling waste material to textile companies.

  • A year ago the Tokyo company had a pretax profit of 35 million yen.

  • Company profits are down from last year's figures.

  • You don't expect to make much profit within the first couple of years of setting up a company.

  • He sold his house at a huge profit.

  • He’s been in business five years, but has not yet turned a profit.

  • There's no profit to be gained from endlessly discussing whose fault it was.

• 1 money that a business earns above what it costs to produce and sell goods and services:

  • [ U ] Any profit made on the sale is taxable.

  • [ C ] A lot of businesses are reaping huge profits.

  • [ U ] He could see little profit in arguing with them.

• 2 earn money, or benefit:

  • [ I ] It’s sickening that somebody would profit from her misfortune.

  • [ T ] fml What will it profit us to make this bargain (= How will we benefit)?

• 3 money that is earned in trade or business, especially after paying the costs of producing and selling goods and services:

  • The group has had an uneven record in recent years, swinging back and forth between profits and losses.

  • make/realize/turn a profit The company said it had made a profit of about £1.4bn on the deal.

  • after-tax/pre-tax profit Pre-tax profits rose 22.3% to £13.7m.

  • The expectation is that both turnover and trading profit will have increased during last year.

  • sell sth at a profit A realized gain occurs when we sell an investment at a profit.

  • profit on sth He will make a $431m profit on the sale.

  • for profit Banks made new loans, then swiftly sold them off for profit, using the proceeds to extend still more.

  • report profits In the year to March the company reported profits after tax of €900,000.

  • profits fall/increase/rise Sales and profits rose last year.

  • Concerns have been raised that a stagnating economy is hampering corporate profit growth.

  • boost/increase profits

  • an increase/jump/rise in profit

  • a drop/fall in profit

  • big/record/strong profits

  • future/short-term/small profits

  • annual/corporate/taxable profits

• 4 to be earning, or start to earn, money from a trade or business rather than losing it:

  • Some want it to be illegal to make anyone redundant if you are in profit.

• 5 profits for the first half, first quarter, etc. of a financial year:

  • The US entertainment giant showed how second-quarter profits had more than doubled.

• 6 profit that does not need to have any costs taken away:

  • Once overheads are covered, 55c of every $1 of sales is pure profit.

• 7 to earn money from something:

  • profit by sth/doing sth Traders can profit by buying the stocks back later at lower prices.

  • profit from sth/doing sth Many companies will profit from the fall in interest rates.

• 8 to gain an advantage from something:

  • profit from sth/doing sth I profited enormously from working with her.