Profit and Value

Profit

Profit noun - The amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received.

Value is a synonym for profit in cost topic. In some cases you can use "Value" instead a noun "Profit", when it comes to topics like benefit, advantage, gain.

Value

Value noun - The amount of money for which something will find a buyer.

Profit is a synonym for value in merit topic. You can use "Profit" instead a noun "Value", if it concerns topics such as advantage, financial worth.

How words are described

good good profit good value
high high profit high value
total total profit total value
obvious obvious profit obvious value
Other adjectives: actual, real, great, little, potential, personal, practical, general, less, negative, extra, additional, significant, highest, tremendous, greater, maximum, higher, economic.

Common collocations

people profit people value people
company profit company value company
way profit way value way

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room However under mark-to-market accounting the value of entire multi-year deal was reported as profit only in the quarter the deal was signed.
  • Creator / Karl Marx He considered profit to be theft.note This is referred to as "surplus value" Corrupt Politician: To Marx, almost all politicians were either in it for their own power or just puppets of the rich.
  • Landmark Sale He also made a profit on the sale (the value of the bridge as a tourist attraction raising the value of the land where it was placed, which he owned), so it doesn't really matter whether or not it was the bridge he meant to buy since he still came out ahead.
    Source: Landmark Sale
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