Definitions
Financial gain or benefit.
Word origin
From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect.
Used in a sentence
“Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.”
“After the pandemic, MLG lost a lot of its viewership and profits which led it to close. The MLG Twitter account is no longer active and the mlg.com website directs to Battlenet instead of its old website.”
“Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“gain after costs”6 letters
02“Money left after costs”6 letters
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