Looking for the meaning or definition of the word profit? Here's what it means.
Noun
(economics) 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.
(literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
(law) In property law, a nonpossessoryinterest 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).
Verb
(transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
(intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
