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PAPER PROFIT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does paper profit mean?

• PAPER PROFIT (noun)
The noun PAPER PROFIT has 1 sense:

1. an unrealized gain on an investment calculated by subtracting the investor's cost from the current market price

Familiarity information: PAPER PROFIT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PAPER PROFIT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An unrealized gain on an investment calculated by subtracting the investor's cost from the current market price

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("paper profit" is a kind of...):

gain (the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating)

Antonym:

paper loss (an unrealized loss on an investment calculated by subtracting the current market price from the investor's cost)

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