Interest
Profit
Profit noun - The amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received.
Usage example: after we deducted the cost of sugar, lemons, and paper cups, the profit from a day of lemonade sales was about $20
Interest is a synonym for profit in help topic. You can use "Interest" instead a noun "Profit", if it concerns topics such as favor, benefit, gain, financial gain. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good interest | good profit |
| obvious | obvious interest | obvious profit |
| actual | actual interest | actual profit |
| real | real interest | real profit |
| Other adjectives: increased, great, huge, little, slight, potential, personal, major, less, significant, greater. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- While in theory the bank does this with the money in a savings account, the interest on the loans accumulated directly to the account, rather than mostly being taken as profit by the bank.
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They're fine with banditry for profit, but fighting whole armies, confronting Eldritch Abominations, and chasing after the traitor who has kidnapped Imaro's love interest?
Source: Literature / Imaro -
Representing the evils of human trafficking, Karpvoich's only interest is his own profit.
Source: Monster / Live-Action TV
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