profiter
- a word derived from profit.
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
Of all this turbid activity Dobyans Verinder was the chief profiter.
From The Highgrader by Hutchison, D. C.
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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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 Berens, Edward
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 Bridge, Cyprian, Admiral Sir
