PROFITS
Dictionary entry overview: What does profits mean?
• PROFITS (noun)
The noun PROFITS has 2 senses:
1. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
2. something won (especially money)
Familiarity information: PROFITS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROFITS (noun)
Meaning:
The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
earnings; profits; profit; net profit; net income; lucre; net
Hypernyms ("profits" is a kind of...):
income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)
Meronyms (parts of "profits"):
part; percentage; portion; share (assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profits"):
earning per share (the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock)
windfall profit (profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it)
cleanup; killing (a very large profit)
fast buck; quick buck (quick or easy earnings,)
filthy lucre (shameful profit)
gross profit; gross profit margin; margin ((finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold)
markup (the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price)
accumulation ((finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation)
dividend (that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly)
Meaning:
Something won (especially money)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
winnings; profits; win
Hypernyms ("profits" is a kind of...):
financial gain (the amount of monetary gain)
