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money that you make by selling something or from your business, especially the money that remains after you have paid all your business costs. Your total profit before you pay tax is called gross profit, and the amount that remains after you have paid tax on this is called net profit
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a part of the profit from something that is sold, which is given to the person who sells it
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money that a person or organization makes from selling or winning something, or from organizing an event or activity
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the difference between how much money you get when you sell something and how much it costs you to buy or make it
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the profit that a company makes from its normal activities of selling goods or services
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the difference between the price that someone sells goods for and what it costs to produce them
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a share of the profits of a company, paid once or twice a year to the people who own the company’s shares
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a percussion instrument used by football fans which makes a rattling sound when shaken
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… the decision to treat the rights and duties of a company as being the same as the rights and duties of its shareholders
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