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profit maker

collocation in English

meanings of profitand maker


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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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maker
noun[C]
uk /ˈmeɪ.kər/ us /ˈmeɪ.kɚ/
the people or company that ...
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Examples of profit maker


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We should be taking a share in the equity which could be a loss producer and not a profitmaker.
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Given the work involved, it is not a major profitmaker.
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The biggest profitmaker of the lot describes them as immoral—that is to say, he is willing for them to be reduced.
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A large proportion of the profit-making is cut and dried and handed to the profitmaker on a plate.
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However, when the product is used by another factory which may be a big profitmaker, the position is different.
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During this time she was the number one profitmaker in the country.
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One could argue that no matter what the payment system, we acted more like rational profit makers, less like professionals.
Therefore, the net increase actually left in the hands of the profit makers was £240 million in 1948—£240 million more than in 1945.
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Hansard archive

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Is that one of the loss makers or profit makers?
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The proposals to hand back steel and road haulage to private profit makers will not impress organised labour or encourage sacrifices on their part.
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The state cannot abdicate and abandon that responsibility to profit makers.
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