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excessive profit

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meanings of excessiveand profit


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excessive
adjective
uk /ekˈses.ɪv/ us /ekˈses.ɪv/
too ...
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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 excessive profit


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We are in favour of the profit motive, but we are not in favour of the excessiveprofit motive.
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However, it would deprive the original holder of what might otherwise be a very excessiveprofit.
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As a result, an excessiveprofit was made.
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When an industry has done so much good, however, there is inevitably a reaction against what appears to be excessiveprofit-making by that industry.
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We are getting to the time when combines are making excessiveprofit because they are approaching a monopoly.
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He also talked about excessiveprofit, and said that in some cases the profits of these companies were excessive.
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A site owner who seeks an excessiveprofit is likely to find himself without any occupiers.
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Will she allow the excessiveprofit levels to continue, or will she use her powers to reduce them?
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Are they subsisting on their losses, or are the firms who are making an excessiveprofit making up the losses of the inefficient firms?
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No one can accuse the retail sector of excessiveprofit.
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Over the fifty years they have not lost the public's money, and, at the same time, they have not made an excessiveprofit.
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Instead, he promises payroll taxes, excessiveprofit taxes, social chapters and the rest of it, which would keep foreign investment out for good.
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I am satisfied that the arrangements for the classes mentioned are reasonable and do not permit an excessiveprofit to accrue to the contractors.
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In the second year it will have a very large profit, and from then on it will be into excessiveprofit.
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I think it will be found that the coal-owners are not making any excessiveprofit.
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What we want to see is neither excessiveprofit nor excessive loss.
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That will serve a useful purpose in curbing any tendency to charge excessive uplifts in fees and take excessiveprofit margins.
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No one has a right to excessiveprofit by a hard bargain.
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Will an excessiveprofit be made out of that one activity?
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