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What is the noun for profit?

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profit
  1. (economics) Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
  2. (literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
  3. (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).
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    1. “The company's profit was also depressed by lower earnings from its investments.”
      “There's no profit in screaming at the referees from the bench.”
profitableness
  1. The quality of being profitable; gainfulness; usefulness; advantageousness.
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    1. “These new instructions emphasized that decks' profitableness was unchanged, and participants could continue selecting as they did before.”
      “As a whole the agriculture was considerably updated, and it was distinguished by sharply increased profitableness.”
      “Dismissals and lay-offs have brought temporary wins concerning profitableness, but it also resulted in many companies having totally or partially lost valuable skills so important for their business operations.”
profiteering
  1. The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically
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    1. “Banks and ATM operators must not be allowed to engage in profiteering at the expense of people in rural and regional areas.”
profitability
  1. The quality or state of being profitable; capacity to make a profit.
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    1. “We are encouraging our companies to cut their burn rate and show a faster path to profitability.”
      “How should one determine the profitability of such a project?”
      “Investors typically want to put their money into a business that has the potential for huge profitability.”
profiteer
  1. (pejorative) One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk.
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    1. “He was, in other words, a war profiteer, though a very unskilled one, unable to survive his exile without borrowing even more money from the brother-in-law who had once sent him smuggling.”
profitlessness
profiting
  1. The making of a profit.
profiter
  1. One who profits.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Of all this turbid activity Dobyans Verinder was the chief profiter.”
profitabilities
profiteerings
profiteers
  1. plural of profiteer
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    1. “Unlike the greedy profiteers and corporate chieftains who actually made money on those stocks, we were not acting irresponsibly.”
      “Today's conflict profiteers are not the first to sponsor a campaign to ransack, rape, pillage and plunder in the Congo.”
      “While some people were busy fighting and dying, war profiteers made fortunes selling rotten food, unserviceable uniforms and non-working weapons.”
profitings
  1. plural of profiting
profiters
  1. plural of profiter
profits
  1. plural of profit
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The company's profits have steadily grown over the past year, resulting in significant financial gains.”
      “The company experienced record profits from its latest product launch.”
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