average profit

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandprofit

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average
adjective
uk
/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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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 ofaverageandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At anaverageprofitlevel of £200 per car, wholesale, we get another figure of £10 million.
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During those five years the coal owners of the country had made anaverageprofitof at least £13,000,000.
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Ouraverageprofiton these sales is something between £800 and £900, which goes to the welfare of these people.
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The economic charges of an industry are its costs of production plusaverageprofit.
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We have been told about a large broiler industry which was so large that theaverageprofitworked out at only 1¼ d. a bird.
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Essentially, measures the change in the investor ratio due to a change in the realized profits, evaluated at theaverageprofitlevel.
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Insufficient information is as yet available on which to estimateaverageprofit.
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They aimed at anaverageprofitof ¼ d. per lb.
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What is theaverageprofitof the coal-owners?
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Theaverageprofitin the last three years has been £200,000.
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That would have been theaverageprofitfor the rest of the trade in private hands.
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We are told that theaverageprofiton the small boats is under £500 and on the bigger boats over £1,600.
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For the first nine months of 1960 the vessels showed anaverageprofitof £800 per vessel.
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Hisaverageprofitin the last three years is£2,555 per year.
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They should be taken as anaverageprofit.
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Over the last three years, theaverageprofithas been approximately £200,000.
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Theaverageprofitto a pirate for one video tape is reckoned to be about £30.
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Subsidies bring theaverageprofitof farmers to possibly a figure round about £1,000.
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It is estimated that the average gross revenue during the present football season is about £165,000 weekly, and theaverageprofitabout £55,000 weekly.
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That was theiraverageprofiton the coal produced.
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