considerable profit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconsiderableandprofit
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considerable
adjective
uk/kənˈsɪd.ər.ə.bəl/us/kənˈsɪd.ɚ.ə.bəl/
large or of ...
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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 ofconsiderableandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although that duty was imposed, the beer trade made aconsiderableprofit.
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A veryconsiderableprofitis being earned on these re-exports.
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That is aconsiderableprofit, bearing in the mind the number of customers.
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They are proposing to hand over aconsiderableprofitto individual private companies.
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If the benefits of this lower tariff are not passed to the occupiers, the site owner has the opportunity to make, legally, aconsiderableprofit.
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It ensured him, apart from allowances, aconsiderableprofitfrom the sale of goods to the merchants.
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Despite suppressed lending rates to favored categories and relatively high reserve requirements, banks retainedconsiderableprofitmargins resulting from the lack of competition.
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Land that had sustained a family for generations could be lost in an instant, auctioned and resold by the new owner, who made aconsiderableprofit.
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The point of substance made here is that a man might make aconsiderableprofitand prefer any fine rather than disgorge.
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Assume that they carry on those avocations for thirty years and make aconsiderableprofit, say £3,000 or £4,000 a year.
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One gentleman made aconsiderableprofitof £500 in three days by the permanent investment of nothing.
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We have been amply rewarded, since the telecommunications side has always shown aconsiderableprofit.
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In other words, there was a deliberate discouragement not to repatriate investments, which had already shownconsiderableprofit.
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It is quite true that opencast mining makes aconsiderableprofitbecause the coal is readily accessible.
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No doubt in the course of time it would be closed, divided up and sold off, withconsiderableprofitto the speculator.
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It makes a veryconsiderableprofitevery year.
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After people were invited to assess them, they could readily be sold off at aconsiderableprofit.
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They are diamonds which are re-exported atconsiderableprofitto the country.
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I can understand this, because they expect that if private road transport is allowed to use this system it would mean aconsiderableprofit.
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Suppose, further, that after a number of years it sells the properties at aconsiderableprofit, thereby making a capital gain.
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