make a profit
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make a profit — make a profit/loss ► to earn or lose more money than you spend: »The business made a pre tax profit of £14.9m last year. Main Entry: ↑make … Financial and business terms
make a profit/loss — ► to earn or lose more money than you spend: »The business made a pre tax profit of £14.9m last year. Main Entry: ↑make … Financial and business terms
make a profit — to sell smth for more than it costs to produce (opposite in meaning to to make a loss) (profit making) … Idioms and examples
profit-making — UK US adjective a profit making event, business, or organization makes or is intended to make a profit Thesaurus: providing profitsynonym * * * ˈprofit making [profit making] adjective … Useful english dictionary
make money — 1. To acquire wealth 2. To make a profit • • • Main Entry: ↑money * * * make ˈmoney idiom to earn a lot of money; to make a profit • The movie should make money. • … Useful english dictionary
profit-taking — ˈprofit ˌtaking noun [uncountable] FINANCE when investors on a financial market sell investments in order to profit from a rise in prices: • Prices settled lower after profit taking late in the session by commodity fund managers. * * *… … Financial and business terms
profit centre — ➔ centre * * * profit centre UK US (US profit center) noun [C] ► ACCOUNTING a part of a company that is treated as a separate business and that is expected to make a profit: »The company s biggest profit centre remains its tenanted pubs. →… … Financial and business terms
profit-takers — UK US (also profit takers) noun [plural] STOCK MARKET ► investors who sells shares, etc. after their value has risen in order to make a profit. The sale by a large number of investors often causes share prices to go down: »Financial services… … Financial and business terms
make a loss — make a profit/loss ► to earn or lose more money than you spend: »The business made a pre tax profit of £14.9m last year. Main Entry: ↑make … Financial and business terms
profit-making — profit ,making adjective a profit making event, business, or organization makes or is intended to make a profit ─ opposite NONPROFIT … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
