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profit

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n. 利润；利益
vi. 获利；有益
vt. 有益于
n. (Profit)人名；(法)普罗菲

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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.

Although she founded her company early on in life, she wasn't driven primarily by profit.

Her interest in Shelly-Ann's quick profit.

His not-for-profit organization runs 100 river boats that serve as floating libraries, schools, and health clinics, and are equipped with solar panels and other communicating facilities.

How could a fine dining shop make more profit?

It is wrong to assume arts groups cannot make a profit.

She donates 10% of ailiecandy's profits to big smiles.

So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit panda base, where ticket money helps pay for research.

The Adelmans will make more profits if they are professional scholars.

Wilson first worked as a driver through a student-support programme of the non-profit organization, on point for college.

Retailers that master the intricacies of wholesaling in Europe may well expect to rake in substantial profits thereby.

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent release, and more profit.

Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market.

For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.

But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”

But "it's us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want not profit".

Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism "in society should be profit and the market .

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.

Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations, at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.