profit

英['pr?f?t] 美['prɑf?t]

反義詞loss

復數:?profits;第三人稱單數:?profits;過去式:?profited;過去分詞:?profited;現在分詞:?profiting;

profit 利潤，利益

pro-,向前，-fit,做，詞源同benefit,effect.字母c脫落。即做事的收益，引申詞義利潤，報酬。

profit: profit: [14] Like proficient, profit goes back to Latin prōficere ‘advance, be advantageous’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forward’ and facere ‘do, make’ (source of English fact, fashion, feat, etc). Its past participle prōfectus was used as a noun meaning ‘progress, success, profit’, and this passed into English via Old French profit. The Latin present participle prōficiēns ‘making progress’ is the source of English proficient [16], which took its meaning on via ‘making progress in learning’ to ‘adept’.
=> fact, fashion, feat, proficient
profit (v.): early 14c., "to advance, benefit, gain," from profit (n.) and from Old French prufiter, porfiter "to benefit," from prufit (see profit (n.)). Related: Profited; profiting.
profit (n.): mid-13c., "income;" c. 1300, "benefit, advantage;"from Old French prufit, porfit "profit, gain" (mid-12c.), from Latin profectus "profit, advance, increase, success, progress," noun use of past participle of proficere (see proficiency). As the opposite of loss, it replaced Old English gewinn. Profit margin attested from 1853.

1. You can improve your chances of profit by sensible planning.: 你可以通過合理計劃來提高盈利的機會。

3. Shares slid 11p to 293p after brokers downgraded their profit estimates.: 股票經紀人降低了他們的利潤預期之后，股價下跌了11便士至293便士。