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TURN A PROFIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does turn a profit mean?
• TURN A PROFIT (verb)
The verb TURN A PROFIT has 1 sense:
1. make a profit; gain money or materially
Familiarity information: TURN A PROFIT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a profit; gain money or materially
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
profit; turn a profit
Context example:
The company has not profited from the merger
Hypernyms (to "turn a profit" is one way to...):
bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "turn a profit"):
line one's pockets (make a lot of money)
turn a nice dime; turn a nice dollar; turn a nice penny (make a satisfactory profit)
clean up (make a big profit; often in a short period of time)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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