fat profit

collocation in English

meaningsoffatandprofit

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fat
adjective
uk
/fæt/us
/fæt/
having a lot of flesh on ...
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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 offatandprofitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffat profit

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As a result, they are sometimes able to charge £30 or more a week, and make afatprofit.
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If the avaricious can lull the simple into believing that shelters can protect them, then they can make a nicefatprofit.
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How would he propose that we take control here, ensuring that the wrong people do not make afatprofit?
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This means that, so long as the offender is paid in advance, even the maximum court fine leaves him with afatprofit.
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The path that people are encouraged to take—cosmetic surgery for no good reason so that doctors in private clinics can make afatprofit—is wrong.
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He has sold it, making afatprofit.
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If it does so, it will buy them at very low cost, and be able to sell them at afatprofit.
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In any event, it is quite unethical that anyone should be able to make afatprofitby selling off the roof over someone else's head.
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To make fat profits out of the people's food.
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It is rumoured that properties have been sold at enhanced rates and that fat profits have been made.
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We may ask what the benefits could be of such measures, apart from fat profits for its backers and promoters.
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It is, of course, these legal entities that are organising child trafficking and making fat profits from it.
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There is no need for the authority to make fat profits.
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Market forces, of which competition is just one, deny us fat living, fat profits, pomp and ceremony and status.
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That is taken back, and you have only to look at the fat profits which are made.
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We cannot be diverted by privatised utilities which cannot bear to see a dent in their fat profits.
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The fat profits which are being made by certain members of the community should be shared more equally, and a greater degree of constitutional reform should follow.
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They send just one message to the major investors: you have the right to expect fat profits and in doing so you bear no risk and, in particular, no responsibilities.
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It is vital to contend with the all too powerful influence of developers and speculators, who are interested only in fat profits and have no sympathy for the environment.
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