profit

An advantageous gain or return; benefit.

Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value.

To make a gain or profit.

To derive advantage; benefit.

To be beneficial to.

To benefit; advantage; be of service to; help on; improve; advance.

To make improvement; improve; grow better; make progress, intellectually or morally: as, to profit by reading or by experience.

To gain in a material sense; become better off or richer: as, to profit by trade or manufactures.

To be of use or advantage; bring good.

Advancement; improvement.