Profit and loss account

Definition

profit /'prɒfÇt/ n ၁။ [C,U] အျမတ္။ sell sth at a profit ❍ operate at a profit ❍ show a clear/ healthy/ fat profit ❍ The sale generated record profits. ❍ They make a profit of ten pence on every copy they sell. ❍ Profits for the last six months rose/ fell by 7%. ❍ Should public transport be run for profit? ❍ There's very little profit in publishing poetry these days. ❍ They're only interested in a quick profit. ၂။ [U] ( fml ) အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ရိွျခင္း။ It is a book that any aspiring musician could read with profit. v အျမတ္ထြက္သည္။ ျမတ္သည္။ ❏ profit and loss account n အျမတ္အ႐ံႈးစာရင္း။ enter an item in the profit and loss account. ❏ profit by/ from sth [ PHRV ] အျမတ္ထုတ္ႏိုင္သည္။ အက်ဳိးရိွရိွ အသံုးခ်သည္။ profit by one's experiences/ mistakes. ❍ small companies profiting from changes in the employment laws ❍ Farmers have profited from the improved weather conditions. ❏ profitless adj အက်ဳိးမရိွေသာ။ အလကား။ အသံုးမက်ေသာ။ profitless talk. ❏ profit margin n အျမတ္ႏႈန္း။ increase the profit margin to 20%. ❏ profit-sharing n [U] လုပ္ငန္းမွရရိွေသာ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ကို အလုပ္သမားမ်ားႏွင့္ ခြဲေဝယူသည့္စနစ္။ a profit-sharing scheme. ❏ profit-taking n [U]( commerce ) အစုရွယ္ရာမ်ားကို အျမတ္ထြက္ခ်ိန္တြင္ ေရာင္းခ်ျခင္း။

Examples

1. Profits rose 31% to £144 million.
2. [make a profit] : Investors have made a 14% profit in just 3 months.
3. [profit on] : The profit on that deal was £21 million.
4. [profit from] : All the profits from the sales of the CD will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
5. [at a profit] : They were buying securities and reselling them at a profit.
6. [for profit] : The practice of killing whales for profit
7. No profit lay in that line of thinking.