profiter
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a word derived from
profit.
profitnounOften profits.
Example Sentences
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Far & away the No. 1 profiter from Installment I of the new boom is U. S. Steel Corp., whose pickings have been lean indeed for most of the past ten years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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You will seldom be driven to have recourse to the advice of the pious Nicole in his Essay, “des moyens de profiter de mauvais sermons.”
From Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew by Edward Berens
All Saint-Lambert's poetry together is not worth the little song she composed for him on his departure for the army:— L'Amant que j'adore, Prêt à me quitter, D'un instant encore Voudrait profiter: Felicité vaine!
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
Captain Desbrière dwells at some length on the mutinies in the British fleet in 1797, and asks regretfully, 'Qu'avait-on fait pour profiter de cette chance unique?'
From Sea-Power and Other Studies by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge
Of all this turbid activity Dobyans Verinder was the chief profiter.
From The Highgrader by D. C. Hutchison