huge profit

collocation in English

meaningsofhugeandprofit

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huge
adjective
uk
/hjuːdʒ/us
/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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profit
noun
uk
/ˈprɒf.ɪt/us
/ˈprɑː.fɪt/
money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofhugeandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This trick ensured them ahugeprofit, and despite investigations they managed to avoid prosecution.
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If these eventualities do not arise, the firm gets away with ahugeprofitthat it does not need.
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This represents ahugeprofit, most of which is in respect of housing loans, which tenants have to bear.
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In the circumstances which prevail in some parts of the country, he makes ahugeprofit.
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If it would pay the expenses of a small concern, it would yield ahugeprofitto a big race track.
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Even so, the possibility remains ofhugeprofitmargins for the large operators in the sector.
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Therefore, the grip on the firm became stronger, with the result that ahugeprofitwas made by that financial house.
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The social housing element would be affordable housing, unlike the yuppie homes-for-votes housing that the council envisages producing ahugeprofit.
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Last year, the firm made ahugeprofitof well over £1 million.
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There ishugeprofitin operating such unethical and already illegal schemes, but it is difficult to enforce the law.
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He could then immediately, or after three years, resell it at ahugeprofit.
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It is not just a matter of planting and waiting for ahugeprofit.
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This would look to business men as if ahugeprofitwere being realised.
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They do not enjoy ahugeprofitsuch as might be held in property or anything else; they just exist.
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Because of that, someone must be making ahugeprofit.
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The company bought many acres and it intends to sell land and make ahugeprofit.
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The point of increasing penalties is to avoid their becoming merely an incidental cost—a flea bite compared with thehugeprofitthat can be made from acid house parties.
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That allowed many leaseholders to acquire their freehold at artificially low prices, which meant that they exercised their right to convert and promptly sold on for ahugeprofit.
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The opposition constantly complain about huge untaxed profits accruing to owners of property, the implication being that someone is making ahugeprofitand putting it into his pocket.
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To say that the electricity supply industry makes ahugeprofit, and that therefore it must subsidise the railways or the farmers from that profit, is too narrow a view.
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