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net profit

noun

  1. the actual profit made on a business transaction, sale, etc., or during a specific period of business activity, after deducting all costs from gross receipts.


net profit

noun

  1. gross profit minus all operating costs not included in the calculation of gross profit, esp wages, overheads, and depreciation


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Word History and Origins

Origin of net profit1

First recorded in 1660–70

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Example Sentences

In the second quarter of 2013, Apple raked in a net profit of $6.9 billion.

Net profit was $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per share, nearly double their level last year and also above Wall Street expectations.

Last quarter the company did $20.9 billion in revenue and cleared $6.6 billion in net profit.

Google became a company with $30 billion in revenues—and with obscene (nearly 30 percent) net profit margins.

Net profit was $3.19 billion, down from $3.4 billion last quarter.

Net profit to Scattergood, eighteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

These companies require millions of capital, and they save the waste and are satisfied with a net profit of a few cents per ton.

When in peace we shall have made as much net profit as there was wealth lost in the war, then we shall be a solvent people.

A pair of swans would cost about the same as a good cow, and might make about the same net profit.

In the spring I sowed three thousand acres of poppies, and now I've made forty thousand roubles net profit.

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