large gain or profit

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• PROFIT — La difficulté, maintes fois soulignée, d’une définition du profit tient à trois types de raisons: en premier lieu, la non concordance du point de vue du comptable (généralement dominé par le souci fiscal) et de celui de l’économiste (préoccupé… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• profit — 1 noun 1 (C, U) money that you gain by selling things or doing business: They sold the business and bought a yacht with the profits. | The profit each day from the snack bar is usually around $. | make (a) profit: The telephone companies are… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• profit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. advantage, benefit, interest; gain, earnings, return. See increaseAnt., loss. v. benefit; improve; gain, line one s pockets. See money, utility. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Advantage] Syn. avail, good,… …   English dictionary for students

• profit — prof|it1 W1S1 [ˈprɔfıt US ˈpra: ] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: Latin profectus, past participle of proficere; PROFICIENT] 1.) [U and C] money that you gain by selling things or doing business, after your costs have been paid ≠ ↑loss… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Stag profit — is a market term used to describe a situation before and immediately after a companies IPO.A stag is a party or individual who subscribes to an IPO expecting the price of the stock to rise immediately upon the start of trading. Thus, stag profit… …   Wikipedia

• To turn to profit — Turn Turn (t[^u]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Turned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Turning}.] [OE. turnen, tournen, OF. tourner, torner, turner, F. tourner, LL. tornare, fr. L. tornare to turn in a lathe, to rounds off, fr. tornus a lathe, Gr. ? a turner s… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview        Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …   Universalium

• Advance-fee fraud — African sting An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also… …   Wikipedia

• benefit — ben·e·fit n 1: something that provides an advantage or gain; specif: an enhancement of property value, enjoyment of facilities, or increase in general prosperity arising from a public improvement general benefit: a benefit to the community at… …   Law dictionary

• Google — This article is about the corporation. For the search engine, see Google Search. For other uses, see Google (disambiguation). Google Inc …   Wikipedia

• Monopoly — This article is about the economic term. For the board game, see Monopoly (game). For other uses, see Monopoly (disambiguation). Competition law Basic concepts …   Wikipedia