Profit vs. Profitability

Profitnoun

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.

Profitnoun

Benefit, positive result obtained.

Profitnoun

(legal) 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).

Profitverb

(transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).

Profitverb

To benefit, gain.

Profitverb

To take advantage of, exploit, use.

Profitnoun

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.

Profitnoun

Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,

Profitverb

To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.

Profitverb

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.

Profitverb

To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.

Profitnoun

the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Profitnoun

the advantageous quality of being beneficial

Profitverb

derive a benefit from;

Profitverb

make a profit; gain money or materially;

Profitabilitynoun

The quality or state of being profitable; capacity to make a profit.

Profitabilitynoun

the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit