profitless

Variant of profit

profit definition

profit (präfit)

noun

  1. advantage; gain; benefit
    1. monetary gain from business transactions
    2. the ratio of this to the amount of capital invested
    3. proceeds from property or investments
  2. the sum remaining after all costs, direct and indirect, are deducted from the income of a business, the selling price, etc.

Etymology: OFr < L profectus, pp. of proficere, to profit, lit., to advance: see proficient

intransitive verb

  1. to be of advantage or benefit
  2. to reap an advantage, financial or otherwise; benefit

transitive verb

to be of profit or advantage to

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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