| VERB | possession | turn a profit, profit | make a profit |
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| Meaning | make a profit; gain money or materially. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonym | profit | |
| Narrower | clean up | make a big profit |
| line one's pockets | make a lot of money | |
| turn a nice dime, turn a nice penny, turn a nice dollar | make a satisfactory / satisfactory profit | |
| Broader | gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in | earn on some commercial or business transaction |
| Opposite | break even | make neither profit nor loss |
| lose, turn a loss | fail to make money in a business | |
| Spanish | sacar provecho | |
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