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| 1 | C/U money that you make by selling something or from your business , especially the money that remains after you have paid all your business costs. Your total profit before you pay tax is called gross profit , and the amount that remains after you have paid tax on this is called net profit 盈利；利润 |
| Profits rose 31% to £144 million. 利润上升了31%，达到144亿英镑。 |
| make a profit Investors have made a 14% profit in just 3 months. 仅仅3个月的时间，投资者就获得了14%的利润。 |
| +on The profit on that deal was £21 million. 那笔交易所得的利润为2100万英镑。 |
| +from All the profits from the sales of the CD will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. 销售这张CD所得的全部利润将捐给多发性硬化症协会。 |
| at a profit (=so that you make a profit) They were buying securities and reselling them at a profit. 以获利 |
| for profit (=in order to make money) the practice of killing whales for profit 为了获利 |
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| 2 | U formal the advantage you get from a situation 利益；益处；好处 |
| No profit lay in that line of thinking. 那样想并没有什么好处。 |
| Words frequently used with profit | | profit 的常见搭配词 | | verbs | achieve, earn, generate, make, reap, show, turn, yield, | 1 | | | |
| See also | | - profit and loss account | |
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