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profit definition - finance
Income minus expenses, if income is greater than expenses. Profit also may be called net income in an informal sense. When looking at trading activity, profit occurs when the sale price of an investment is greater than the purchase price.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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