A part of an organization with assignable revenues and costs and hence ascertainable profitability.
利润中心（指有可转让收入和成本，因此有确定的创利能力的部门）
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As a vice president, I oversaw multiple businesses in beauty care and led our largest profit center in North America to the best results we'd had in a decade.
The Smith & Wesson product line has always been a profit center for retail gun dealers.
One of the reasons I'm so optimistic about the music business going forward is that the actual promotional cost center becomes a profit center in and of itself.
As a result, he says, pension plans are now effectively a profit center.
Can you foresee that the U.S. will become a major profit center?
He's probably already got a better ‘in’ with the CEO, as he's a profit center, not a cost center.
The problem with relying upon just one profit center is that a single profit center can go up, or it can go down.
This concerns investors because the programs are becoming a huge profit center for retailers.
Even today, the agency actually looks like a profit center in the federal budget.
After all, customer service is a cost, not a profit center, and if you can cut those costs, you win.
At first, the policies were a big profit center for the industry.
A good employee can become a new profit center - driving sales, helping others succeed, giving your business a better reputation, and making the office a better place to be.
The Internet allows you to outsource those to a company, industry or entity that has actually converted that to a profit center.
Subprime can be a huge profit center, with spreads of 12 percentage points or higher.
Donovan, however, now runs the biggest profit centre in the bank and is said to be making a big mark in his job as head of wholesale banking.
Salaries were set low, but now each manager could earn a bonus pegged to the earnings of his profit center.
The headquarters is a holding company in that it serves as a profit centre, and does not otherwise direct activities at the periphery.
With their expanding power, many retailers were treating traditional co-op as a profit centre, diverting funds to offset operating costs.
The promotion has become the only profit center for the major carriers today.
For the Chicago bank, the mortgage program is a big profit center.