Profit vs Sturt - What's the difference?
profit | sturt |
Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
* Rambler
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (dated, literary) Benefit, positive result obtained.
* Bible, 1 Corinthians vii. 35
* Shakespeare
(legal) In property law, a nonpossessory interest in land whereby a party is entitled to enter the land of another for the purpose of taking the soil or the substance of the soil (coal, oil, minerals, and in some jurisdictions timber and game).
To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
* Bible, Hebrews iv. 2
* Dryden
To benefit, gain.
To take advantage of, exploit, use.
(biology) In an embryo, an angle equal to two gons. If a mosaic forms in the embryo, the line passes between two organs with a probability, in percent, equal to the number of sturts between them.
(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) disturbance; annoyance; care
(mining) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
As nouns the difference between profit and sturt
is that profit is profit while sturt is (biology) in an embryo, an angle equal to two gons if a mosaic forms in the embryo, the line passes between two organs with a probability, in percent, equal to the number of sturts between them or sturt can be (obsolete|uk|scotland|dialect) disturbance; annoyance; care.As a verb sturt is
(obsolete|uk|scotland|dialect) to vex; to annoy; to startle.profit
English
(wikipedia profit)Noun
(en noun)- Let no man anticipate uncertain profits .
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits' to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: ' profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}}
- This I speak for your own profit .
- if you dare do yourself a profit and a right
Usage notes
Regarding the income sense, when the difference is negative the term loss is correct. Negative profit does appear in microeconomics. Profit by a government agency is called a surplus.Synonyms
* gainAntonyms
* lossVerb
(en verb)- The word preached did not profit them.
- It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.
Derived terms
* book profit * for-profit * for fun and profit * nonprofit * not-for-profit * paper profit * profit from * profitable * profitably * profiteer * profit margin * profit sharing * profit takingExternal links
* * ----sturt
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)See also
*centimorgan *morgan (named for Sturtevant's teacher)Etymology 2
Compare start.Noun
(en noun)- (Raymond)