Definition of profit

• n. - Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
• n. - Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
• n. - To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
• v. i. - To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
• v. i. - To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.