immense profit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimmenseandprofit
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immense
adjective
uk/ɪˈmens/us/ɪˈmens/
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 ofimmenseandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They sell them after three years and make animmenseprofit: nice work if you can get it!
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He wants to know what we meant by allowing this company to secure thisimmenseprofitwhile our officials were looking on and doing nothing.
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The films, books and magazines are sold atimmenseprofitto the proprietors or promoters.
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With thatimmenseprofit, they closed down the pit, where 700 men were working; and those men, in this cold weather, have to exist on the dole.
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I know of a large number of industries where that has been done withimmenseprofitand immense improvement in the efficiency of the industry concerned.
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This was largely due to theimmenseprofitthat was available due to the high demand in the area.
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Drug traffickers and drug dealers earn immense profits from the destruction of other people's lives.
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Fifthly, when land is transferred it must be transferred at existing use value and not at "hope" value—in the hope of making immense profits.
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There have been immense profits made out of the industry during the last 10 years.
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Immense amounts of money and immense profits are involved.
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Surely, more than £2,000,000 could have been squeezed out of the body of employers who are making immense profits in many cases and paying immense wages.
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My borough council had great difficulty under the old regulations in pinning down several flagrant attempts by transgressors to make immense profits.
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Will he do something to curb the immense profits being made by drug manufacturers so that people, such as hospital pharmacists, can have higher wages?
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They have walked away with those immense profits, and have taken also with them the immense prices at which they sold their ships.
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Surely we must assume that some of these immense profits will be passed on to the public by a reduction in postal and telegraph rates?
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I have condemned in my constituency and elsewhere the making of these immense profits by certain factories.
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According to him, these immense profits could be used as a historic basis for pushing loopholes through the safeguards.
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As there is an immense demand for houses on this sought-after stretch of coast, their investment of £21,000 could bring them immense profits if they were allowed to succeed.
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Their immense profits told against them.
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I think everybody who served in the last war, either at home or overseas, remembers how bitter we felt about the immense profits that were made then.
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