prof·it
noun/ˈprɒfɪt/
/ˈprɑːfɪt/
- [countable, uncountable] the money that you make in business or by selling things, especially after paying the costs involved
利润；收益；赢利 - annual/pre-tax/corporate profits
年度／税前／公司利润 - Profits before tax grew from £615m to £1 168m.
税前利润从 6.15 亿英镑增长至 11.68 亿英镑。 - a rise/an increase/a jump/a drop/a fall in profits
利润的上升／增长／下跌／降低／下降 - to maximize/increase profits
使利润最大化；增加利润 - to report/post profits of £50 million
报告／公布利润 5 000 万英镑 - The club may turn a profit (= make a profit) by the end of the year.
俱乐部可能在年底前实现赢利。 - The sale generated record profits.
这笔生意带来了创纪录的收益。 - Net profit (= after you have paid costs and tax) was up 16.1 per cent.
纯利润增长了 16.1%。 - The business recorded a gross profit of (= before you pay costs and tax) £1.45 million last year.
该公司去年的毛利润（= 支付成本和税费之前）为 145 万英镑。 - The division's profit margins are being squeezed.
该部门的利润率不断收缩。 - The directors are driven only by the profit motive.
董事们只为谋利动机所推动。 - profit on something The company made a healthy profit on the deal.
公司在这笔生意中获利颇丰。 - profit from something Profit from exports rose 7.7 per cent.
出口利润增长了 7.7%。 - The radio station earns a profit from its advertising.
广播电台从广告业务获利。 - profit in something There was little or no profit in the products themselves.
产品本身几乎没有利润。 - profit in doing something There isn’t much profit in running a restaurant these days.
现在开餐馆利润已经不多了。 - at a profit We should be able to sell the house at a huge profit.
我们卖掉这个房子应该可以大赚一笔。 - for profit The agency is voluntary and not run for profit.
这个机构是义务性的，不是为了赢利。
Homophones profit | prophetprofit prophet/ˈprɒfɪt//ˈprɑːfɪt/- profit noun
- She's only interested in making a quick profit.
她只对快速获利感兴趣。
- She's only interested in making a quick profit.
- profit verb
- Patents allowed inventors to profit from ownership of their inventions.
专利使发明者能够从其发明的所有权中获利。
- Patents allowed inventors to profit from ownership of their inventions.
- prophet noun
- With his long white beard, he looks like an Old Testament prophet.
他留着长长的白胡子，看起来就像旧约先知。
- With his long white beard, he looks like an Old Testament prophet.
Wordfinder- afford
- bank
- bankrupt
- capital
- economy
- expense
- finance
- invest
- money
- profit
Collocations BusinessBusinessRunning a business- buy/acquire/own/sell a company/firm/franchise
- set up/establish/start/start up/launch a business/company
- run/operate a business/company/franchise
- head/run a firm/department/team
- make/secure/win/block a deal
- expand/grow/build the business
- boost/increase investment/spending/sales/turnover/earnings/exports/trade
- increase/expand production/output/sales
- boost/maximize production/productivity/efficiency/income/revenue/profit/profitability
- achieve/maintain/sustain growth/profitability
- cut/reduce/bring down/lower/slash costs/prices
- announce/impose/make cuts/cutbacks
- break into/enter/capture/dominate the market
- gain/grab/take/win/boost/lose market share
- find/build/create a market for something
- start/launch an advertising/a marketing campaign
- develop/launch/promote a product/website
- create/generate demand for your product
- attract/get/retain/help customers/clients
- drive/generate/boost/increase demand/sales
- beat/keep ahead of/out-think/outperform the competition
- meet/reach/exceed/miss sales targets
- draw up/set/present/agree/approve a budget
- keep to/balance/cut/reduce/slash the budget
- be/come in below/under/over/within budget
- generate income/revenue/profit/funds/business
- fund/finance a campaign/a venture/an expansion/spending/a deficit
- provide/raise/allocate capital/funds
- attract/encourage investment/investors
- recover/recoup costs/losses/an investment
- get/obtain/offer somebody/grant somebody credit/a loan
- apply for/raise/secure/arrange/provide finance
- lose business/trade/customers/sales/revenue
- accumulate/accrue/incur/run up debts
- suffer/sustain enormous/heavy/serious losses
- face cuts/a deficit/redundancy/bankruptcy
- file for/ (North American English) enter/avoid/escape bankruptcy
- (British English) go into administration/liquidation
- liquidate/wind up a company
- survive/weather a recession/downturn
- propose/seek/block/oppose a merger
- launch/make/accept/defeat a takeover bid
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessb1- At whose expense are those obscene profits made?
那些骯脏的利润是从谁那里赚取的？ - Damaged goods mean lost profit.
商品有损毁意味着利润受损。 - He's only interested in making a quick profit.
他只对赚快钱感兴趣。 - Investors will take the profits.
投资者会获取利润。 - Jakob had realized a personal profit of $240 000.
雅各布实现了 24 万美元的个人收益。 - Profits surged 41 per cent to £13 million.
利润飙升 41%，达到 1300 万英镑。 - The company started to show a profit in its first year.
公司在第一年就开始盈利。 - The expected profits have not materialized.
没有实现预期的利润。 - The goods were sold for profit.
这些商品的出售是为了获利。 - They closed down after years of low profits.
他们数年来获利微薄，终致倒闭。 - a commodity that produced steady profits
一种产生稳定利润的商品 - an annual profit of £50 000
5 万英镑的年利润 - We are continuing our strategy of profit maximization.
我们将继续执行利润最大化的战略。 - The company posted second-quarter profits of $570 million.
该公司公布的第二季度利润为 5.7 亿美元。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- considerable
- decent
- …
- bring
- bring in
- deliver
- …
- climb
- grow
- increase
- …
- margin
- rate
- sharing
- …
- against profits
- at a profit
- for profit
- …
- a decline in profits
- a fall in profits
- an increase in profits
- …
- annual/pre-tax/corporate profits
- [uncountable] (formal) the advantage that you get from doing something
好处；利益；裨益 - Future lawyers could study this text with profit.
未来的律师研读这一文本也许会有裨益。
- Future lawyers could study this text with profit.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘advantage, benefit’): from Old French, from Latin profectus ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’, from pro- ‘on behalf of’ + facere ‘do’. The verb is from Old French profiter.