profit是什么意思？

Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

The sugar industry is overtaking alcohol and tobacco business in generating profits.

He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.

I concluded that the profit from burgers is more than offset ( ' , 抵消 ) by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.

Less profits in the short term.

It profits by selling its users' personal data.

She sold the restaurant with a substantial profit.

"Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend," Soupios says.

Dog-fighting victims are tortured and killed for profit and "sport," yet their criminal abusers often receive a 28 minimal sentence for causing a lifetime of pain.

He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.

I concluded that the profit from burgers is more than offset by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.

The belief that research data is private intellectual propertyThe concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it.

It is difficult to find solid evidence to prove environmental friendliness generates more profits than exploiting the natural environment.

And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

As American research universities begin to resemble profit centers and entertainment complexes, it's easy to lose sight of their primary mission; to produce and spread knowledge.

He made a profit out of Monsanto's commercial secrets.

Some schools out for profit cynically increase tuitions and count on student loans and federal aid to foot the bill – knowing full well that the students won't make it.

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California

Another factor is the squeeze that conventional dairy farmers have felt as the price of grain they feed their cows has gone up, tightening their profit margins.

Publishers were interested only in books that would sell fairly quickly in sufficient numbers to cover the costs of production and make a profit.

The idea that all energy and wealth comes from the sun really intrigued him He thought the shorter the distance between the sun and the end product, the higher the profit to the farmer.

Though schools cannot profit from these trips, the companies that arrange them do.