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penny profit

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meanings of pennyand profit


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penny
noun[C]
uk /ˈpen.i/ us /ˈpen.i/
the smallest unit of money in the UK, of which there are 100 in a pound, or a small coin worth this much. You use "pence" or, more informally, "p" when you are talking about the units of money and pennies when you are talking about the ...
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profit
noun
uk /ˈprɒf.ɪt/ us /ˈprɑː.fɪt/
money that is earned in trade or business after paying the costs of producing and selling goods ...
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Examples of penny profit


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From the day that the pit started not a pennyprofit was made.
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Manufacturers of bulk food products often observe that a pennyprofit per item for them is a profit of £22 a tonne.
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It never produced a pennyprofit from the day it was sunk and had to be closed because of geological problems.
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We were one of the few companies that never made a pennyprofit during the war, so we had not any capital to start out.
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I have never taken a pennyprofit out of that business; everything it has produced has been shared among the employees.
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No one will be allowed to make a single pennyprofit out of this grubby asset-stripping exercise.
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The people concerned in the trade will make slightly more than that pennyprofit in the reduction of the duty.
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The consequence is that he has employed 6,000 without a pennyprofit, without any dividends and also without even his expenses.
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He said that he had not made a pennyprofit for the last two years and, worst of all, had not been able to invest in new machinery.
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You may carry on business and make £1,000,000 profit and never pay a penny profits tax.
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