profit

英['prɒfɪt] 美['prɑfɪt]

反义词loss

复数: profits;第三人称单数: profits;过去式: profited;过去分词: profited;现在分词: profiting;

profit 利润，利益

pro-,向前，-fit,做，词源同benefit,effect.字母c脱落。即做事的收益，引申词义利润，报酬。

profit: profit: [14] Like proficient, profit goes back to Latin prōficere ‘advance, be advantageous’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forward’ and facere ‘do, make’ (source of English fact, fashion, feat, etc). Its past participle prōfectus was used as a noun meaning ‘progress, success, profit’, and this passed into English via Old French profit. The Latin present participle prōficiēns ‘making progress’ is the source of English proficient [16], which took its meaning on via ‘making progress in learning’ to ‘adept’.
=> fact, fashion, feat, proficient
profit (v.): early 14c., "to advance, benefit, gain," from profit (n.) and from Old French prufiter, porfiter "to benefit," from prufit (see profit (n.)). Related: Profited; profiting.
profit (n.): mid-13c., "income;" c. 1300, "benefit, advantage;"from Old French prufit, porfit "profit, gain" (mid-12c.), from Latin profectus "profit, advance, increase, success, progress," noun use of past participle of proficere (see proficiency). As the opposite of loss, it replaced Old English gewinn. Profit margin attested from 1853.

1. You can improve your chances of profit by sensible planning.: 你可以通过合理计划来提高盈利的机会。

3. Shares slid 11p to 293p after brokers downgraded their profit estimates.: 股票经纪人降低了他们的利润预期之后，股价下跌了11便士至293便士。