📘verbs
🔵make a profit
✨We are in business to make a profit.
🔵turn/earn a profit (=make a profit)
✨Without the liquor sales, the store could not turn a profit.
🔵show a profit (=make a profit)
✨The business will not show a profit this year.
🔵report/post a profit (=officially announce a profit)
✨The company reported net profits of $3.6 million for fiscal year 2006.
🔵generate profit(s)
✨We have the capacity to generate more profit.
🔵boost profits (=make them increase)
✨They aim to boost profits by slashing costs.
🔵maximize profits (=make them as big as possible)
✨Every firm tries to maximize its profits.
🔵profits are up/down
✨Pre-tax profits were up 21.5%.
🔵profits rise/increase/grow
✨Half of the firms surveyed expected profits to rise.
🔵profits soar/leap (=increase by a large amount)
🔵profits fall
✨The group saw profits fall from £24m to £17.8m.
🔵profits slump/plunge (=fall by a large amount)
✨The group’s pre-tax profits slumped to £25.5m.
🧩#profit_collocations
🧩#Essential_English_words
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🔵make a profit
✨We are in business to make a profit.
🔵turn/earn a profit (=make a profit)
✨Without the liquor sales, the store could not turn a profit.
🔵show a profit (=make a profit)
✨The business will not show a profit this year.
🔵report/post a profit (=officially announce a profit)
✨The company reported net profits of $3.6 million for fiscal year 2006.
🔵generate profit(s)
✨We have the capacity to generate more profit.
🔵boost profits (=make them increase)
✨They aim to boost profits by slashing costs.
🔵maximize profits (=make them as big as possible)
✨Every firm tries to maximize its profits.
🔵profits are up/down
✨Pre-tax profits were up 21.5%.
🔵profits rise/increase/grow
✨Half of the firms surveyed expected profits to rise.
🔵profits soar/leap (=increase by a large amount)
🔵profits fall
✨The group saw profits fall from £24m to £17.8m.
🔵profits slump/plunge (=fall by a large amount)
✨The group’s pre-tax profits slumped to £25.5m.
🧩#profit_collocations
🧩#Essential_English_words
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