modest profit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodestandprofit
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modest
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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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 ofmodestandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He is wholly responsible, and, therefore, we ought to have figures which can substantiate the statement that he is going to make amodestprofit.
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He says he will make amodestprofit: what is it?
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We do it prudently in the first instance by ensuring that we shall retain amodestprofiton the transaction.
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Although they make amodestprofitfrom such sales, it cannot sustain the life of the club.
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Its turnover was enormous and it managed to make amodestprofit.
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This next year it will show amodestprofit.
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Prison farms and gardens consistently operate at amodestprofit.
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I said that they were making amodestprofit.
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That is amodestprofit, but it is a real profit.
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Instead, therefore, of making a small,modestprofitof £200, they will find it turned into a loss of £1,120.
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The position on canned fish therefore, is, broadly, that we made a substantial profit and on brisling, allowing for this price decrease, we shall make amodestprofit.
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What they like to do is to make a big profit on a small turnover, instead of making a moremodestprofiton a large turnover.
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I am saying that if we dispose of our stocks at the price to which we have reduced the brisling, we shall make amodestprofit.
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That firm was desperate for work and it deliberately submitted a tender at a very low price with a verymodestprofitmargin in order to get it.
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With such a manpower force, surely there is no reason why that loss should not be converted into amodestprofitfor the good of the community?
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However, under the regulations, could a sub-post office face a demand for repayment if it were granted a subsidy for one service, but made amodestprofiton another service?
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On average, half the gold-seekers made amodestprofit, after taking all expenses into account.
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Instead of competitive bidding to get lower prices, the government gave out contracts that promised to pay all the expenses plus amodestprofit.
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Amodestprofitwas made in 1871, following serious losses in the previous two years.
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