Collocations withprofit
These are words often used in combination withprofit.
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after-tax profit
How does he justify the fact that a company that he wants to succeed had to pay dividends amounting to £8·6 million, although its after-tax profit was £5·2 million?
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annual profit
This is nearly 6 times the annual profit earned by a concessionaire who abides by the 30-year concession contract.
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anticipated profit
It is not suffering a cut, it is just suffering a reduction in its anticipated profit.
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average profit
Essentially, measures the change in the investor ratio due to a change in the realized profits, evaluated at the average profit level.
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bank profits
There is apparently no difficulty in conferring—if that is the right word—a retrospective detriment such as the proposed windfall tax on bank profits.
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business profit
The relief is given by deducting such expenditure when working out their business profit for tax purposes.
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capital profit
Does the period of accrual change the nature of capital profit, or call for some relief from tax?
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cash profit
The gold was sold for $209 million, which makes a cash profit of more than $170 million.
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considerable profit
It ensured him, apart from allowances, a considerable profit from the sale of goods to the merchants.
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corporate profit
The step down in contributions has a myriad of implications but the one of most interest here is its impact on corporate profits.
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cost profit
Most of these studies are based on production, cost profit functions, with the pollution variable modelled indirectly using abatement capital expenditure as one of the inputs.
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cut profit
Owing to inflation industrialists are not spurred on to be enterprising and efficient and to cut profit margins because they can sell so easily.
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enormous profit
It did not show an enormous profit, but nevertheless it was a very desirable type of thing.
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estimated profit
The estimated profit for the disease-free system is $72,086.
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excess profit
In 1942 the excess profit was regarded as a fixed percentage over a supposed normal profit.
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excessive profit
We are in favour of the profit motive, but we are not in favour of the excessive profit motive.
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exorbitant profit
The landlord was making an exorbitant profit, and somebody was not doing very well out of it.
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expectation of profit
In general, private investors make their own decisions in the expectation of profit.
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expected profit
First, it must maximize the expected profit of the principal.
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fat profit
As a result, they are sometimes able to charge £30 or more a week, and make a fat profit.
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future profit
Any estimate of future profit or loss at each individual plant must depend on assumptions, about costs of raw materials, prices, market outlets etc.
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gain profit
I think on the contrary that other authorised undertakers are very likely to gain profit when this measure comes into operation.
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handsome profit
In cost-benefit terms, there can be no doubt that society stands to make a handsome profit from expenditure on such a domiciliary service.
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healthy profit
We also want to make a healthy profit, say a 100% mark-up on the cost price.
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huge profit
This trick ensured them a huge profit, and despite investigations they managed to avoid prosecution.
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illegal profit
I suggest they should put in a fine based on three times the amount of illegal profit made by the wrongdoer who has been prosecuted.
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immense profit
They sell them after three years and make an immense profit: nice work if you can get it!
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increasing profit
The price effect valorised particularly mining production, increasing profit margins and the value of sales abroad.
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inflated profit
Equally, many small pharmacies in rural areas and in some urban areas are on the margin and inflated profit on such medicines makes the difference between viability and failure.
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lost profit
The fact that the inclusion of lost profit in the compensation is being negotiated is not appropriate for our policy.
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marginal profit
Note also that marginal profit attributable to extraction, and the difference in discounted marginal profit, can be less than zero.
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maximum profit
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modest profit
He is wholly responsible, and, therefore, we ought to have figures which can substantiate the statement that he is going to make a modest profit.
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monopoly profit
The feudal elite attempted to form monopolies with various urban merchants hoping to profit by extracting some of the resulting monopoly profit.
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penny profit
From the day that the pit started not a penny profit was made.
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percentage of profit
The total amount of effort will depend on the percentage of profit in the preceding year.
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potential profit
Once the fixed costs of production were covered, the more copies that were printed, the less each one cost and the greater the potential profit.
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pre-tax profit
Last year was a record year for production, with a turnover of £3.5 billion, yet the industry realised a pre-tax profit of just £150 million.
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profit incentive
A heavy profit incentive holds no loyalty or patriotism.
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profit maker
We should be taking a share in the equity which could be a loss producer and not a profit maker.
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profit maximization
Profit maximization ranked very low in the early and mid group, while it was mentioned more frequently among the late entrants.
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profit record
The profit record of the steel industry at the time of nationalisation in 1967 was made during a long post-war boom.
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profit share
Their disappointment if the profit share bonus is not up to expectation is real and genuine.
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profit tax
The value added tax also adds to the implicit profit tax.
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profits of industry
The intuitive reason for this is that a worsening in terms of trade would reduce the profits of industry and therefore the return on capital.
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prospect of profit
We cannot accept that some players, driven solely by the prospect of profit, expose the non-commercial functions to the risks inherent in banking.
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quick profit
A satisfied customer is a good deal better than a quick profit.
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reasonable profit
Implementation was the task of private entrepreneurs, who would only invest when they could foresee a reasonable profit.
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reduced profit
In this research, we assume that the amount of reduced profit is the subsidy payment to aquacultural farmers.
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short-term profit
Exploitation of resources at a global scale allows huge short-term profit but leaves behind the long-term costs associated with environmental damage.
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substantial profit
Up to the present time, so far from making a loss, we have made a substantial profit.
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tidy profit
The only winners will be the arms manufacturers who are already making a tidy profit from the existing state of tension.
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total profit
I cannot, at present, submit an estimate of what the total profit will be on the trading accounts.
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trading profit
Last year, the trading profit before the charge of interest was £71 million.
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windfall profit
There is also the question of what constitutes a windfall profit.
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