enormous profit

collocation in English

meaningsofenormousandprofit

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enormous
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnɔː.məs/us
/əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely ...
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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 ofenormousandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It did not show anenormousprofit, but nevertheless it was a very desirable type of thing.
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It is clear that the public is being overcharged, otherwise theenormousprofitwould not be made.
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That may be, but a person who bought could make anenormousprofitin a few days with no productivity bargain tied to it.
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All they were concerned about was thisenormousprofitover small cars.
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Banks are doing very well out of the level of minimum lending rate; in fact they have made anenormousprofit.
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If it is a 50-acre estate in five 10-acre portions, he makes anenormousprofit.
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Suddenly the markets have begun speculating on food products, because there areenormousprofitmargins.
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Certainly every one of us must recognise that the new towns represent anenormousprofitfor brewing interests.
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Smuggling has a huge attraction for the worst elements in our society, who can make a fast andenormousprofit.
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The next purchaser very often sells again at anenormousprofit.
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What is happening to-day is that people are buying blocks of houses or flats, selling them and making anenormousprofit.
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Well, in no time they were trying to dispose of the assets at anenormousprofit.
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They are making anenormousprofitout of this stock which they bought at an exceptional and almost unprecedentedly cheap rate.
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If that can be done, anenormousprofitcan be made.
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Since this land is zoned industrial, she will know the value of the land, which the owners can now sell at anenormousprofit.
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Then they sold it to a third party at anenormousprofit.
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During all that time, that is for six years from 1914 to 1920, the people using the docks had been making anenormousprofit.
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During the years of war they madeenormousprofitout of oils and fats.
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It is not a question of making anenormousprofit.
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But the other side of the coin is that the industrial element of new towns is anenormousprofit-making element.
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