profit maker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprofitandmaker
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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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maker
noun[C]
uk/ˈmeɪ.kər/us/ˈmeɪ.kɚ/
the people or company that ...
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(Definition ofprofitandmakerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We should be taking a share in the equity which could be a loss producer and not aprofitmaker.
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Given the work involved, it is not a majorprofitmaker.
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The biggestprofitmakerof the lot describes them as immoral—that is to say, he is willing for them to be reduced.
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A large proportion of the profit-making is cut and dried and handed to theprofitmakeron a plate.
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However, when the product is used by another factory which may be a bigprofitmaker, the position is different.
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During this time she was the number oneprofitmakerin the country.
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One could argue that no matter what the payment system, we acted more like rational profit makers, less like professionals.
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Therefore, the net increase actually left in the hands of the profit makers was £240 million in 1948—£240 million more than in 1945.
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Is that one of the loss makers or profit makers?
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The proposals to hand back steel and road haulage to private profit makers will not impress organised labour or encourage sacrifices on their part.
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The state cannot abdicate and abandon that responsibility to profit makers.
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