Dictionary Home » Invest » profit

profit investment & finance definition

Listen See in a sentence

Income minus expenses, if income is greater than expenses. Profit also may be called net income in an informal sense. When looking at trading activity, profit occurs when the sale price of an investment is greater than the purchase price.

See profit in Wall Street Words

Learn more about profit

» profit definition

» profit synonyms

» PROFIT abbreviations & acronyms

» profit business definition

» profit legal definition

» profit sentence examples

» profit quote examples

Related Articles

» What Is Capitalism?

» What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Oligopoly?

link/cite print suggestion box

More from YD