## Meanings
1. The money you gain after subtracting your costs, especially in business.
2. To gain an advantage or benefit from something.
3. A useful advantage or benefit gained from something.
4. To make money from a business activity.

## Examples
- The company made a large profit last year.
- She profited from her years of experience abroad.
- Reading widely was of great profit to his studies.
- They hope to profit from the new product line.

## Synonyms
- gain

## Antonyms
- loss

## Derived Forms
- disprofit
- for-profit
- megaprofit
- non-profit
- non-profit-making
- nonprofit
- nonprofiting
- not-for-profit
- profit-taking
- profitable
- profitably
- profiteer

## Related Forms
- proficiency
- proficient

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *per-
- Root: profit
- Root: prōfectus

## Etymology
From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect.

## AI Etymology
Profit comes from Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect. In present-day English it covers the money you gain after subtracting your costs, especially in business, to gain an advantage or benefit from something, and a useful advantage or benefit gained from something. The wider family includes derived forms such as disprofit, for-profit, megaprofit, non-profit, non-profit-making and related forms such as proficiency, proficient.

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- Business & Commerce

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