profit meaning
EN
[ˈprɒfət] [-ɒfɪt] 
US WProfit
- A financial benefit that is realized when the amount of revenue gained from a business activity exceeds the expenses, costs and taxes needed to sustain the activity.
- Profit (accounting), the difference between the purchase price and the costs of bringing to market
- Profit (economics), has two related but distinct meanings: Normal profit and Economic profit
- Profit (real property), a nonpossessory interest in land
- Profit (TV series), a short-lived American television series starring Adrian Pasdar
- The Profit (TV series)
FR profit 
- NounPLprofitsPREpro-
- Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
- (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
- Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.
- (law) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).
- Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
- VerbSGprofitsPRprofitingPT, PPprofited
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- These are the same vulture funds now flying over Greece, holding unrestructured private debt and gloating at the prospects of unwarranted profits at the expense of others’ misfortune.
- To annualise net profit, divide the year-to-date net profit by the number of completed months, and multiply by twelve.
- he board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25%
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- For I mine own gained knowledge should profane,/ If I would time expend with such a snipe,/ But for my sport and profit.
- The concert hall was underbooked for most of the year and failed to make a profit.
- The business runs hot and cold; some months our firm doesn't earn enough to cover expenses and other months, we net 400% profits.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of profit in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- fr profit
- en profits
- fr profits
- en profitable
- fr profitable
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "profit" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.