PROFIT MARGIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profit margin mean? 

• PROFIT MARGIN (noun)
  The noun PROFIT MARGIN has 1 sense:

1. the ratio gross profits divided by net sales

  Familiarity information: PROFIT MARGIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFIT MARGIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ratio gross profits divided by net sales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

gross margin; margin of profit; profit margin

Hypernyms ("profit margin" is a kind of...):

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))