Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit.
Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.
Last year, Jet Blue made a profit of $168 million, $40 million more than the previous year.
They have to fill every seat—in most cases the profit comes in only the final three rows of seats.
Barry must die; but what shall I profit by killing him if I kill this woman also?
For God's sake let us profit by this advantage, and increase our distance from the enemy.
That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
We felt, dimly, as if we had had a "warning," and did not yet know how to profit by it.
The profit of the master is the great end of the slave's existence.
mid-13c., "income;" c.1300, "benefit, advantage;"from Old French prufit, porfit "profit, gain" (mid-12c.), from Latin profectus "profit, advance, increase, success, progress," noun use of past participle of proficere (see proficiency). As the opposite of loss, it replaced Old English gewinn. Profit margin attested from 1853.
early 14c., "to advance, benefit, gain," from profit (n.) and from Old French prufiter, porfiter "to benefit," from prufit (see profit (n.)). Related: Profited; profiting.
