Word Direct Answers

What does "profit" mean?

Profit: Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit, This I speak for your own profit. 1 Cor. vii.

Additional senses

  1. 2.If you dare do yourself a profit and a right. Shak.
  2. 3.To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men. The word preached did not profit them. Heb. iv.
  3. 4.It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs. Dryden.
  4. 5.To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance. I profit not by thy talk. Shak.
  5. 6.To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Prov. xi. 4.

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