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单词 profit and loss
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profit and loss


noun

the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.

Origin of profit and loss

First recorded in 1580–90

Words nearby profit and loss

profiler, profiling, Profilometer, profit, profitable, profit and loss, profit and loss account, profit center, profit centre, profiteer, profiteering
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Example sentences from the Web for profit and loss

  • They keep a weather eye on the profit-and-loss account, and retire like thrifty traders on a well-earned competency.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern Volume 11|Various
  • The profit-and-loss account in the long run always balances.

    The Breath of Life|John Burroughs
  • This, too, was one of the items in the profit-and-loss column of his experiments.

    The Imitator|Percival Pollard

British Dictionary definitions for profit and loss

profit and loss

noun

accounting an account compiled at the end of a financial year showing that year's revenue and expense items and indicating gross and net profit or loss
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