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/mˈɑrdʒən əv prˈɑfət/ Listen

Margin of profit

noun

The ratio gross profits divided by net sales. Synonyms: gross margin, profit margin.

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... transportation of potatoes, and we could demonstrate by chart and figures that the margin between the farmer and the consumer broadened 100 per cent in periods of car shortage. Nor did the middleman make this whole margin of profit, because he was subjected to unusual losses and destruction, and took unusual risks in awaiting a market. The same phenomenon was proved in a large way at time of acute shortage of movement ...

— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg

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... compared with some of the older countries, such averages seem small, yet in the dry districts of Australia they mean a reasonable margin of profit. In such districts it is estimated that a 10-bushel crop per acre will pay $0.60 per bushel. Of late years the price received by growers has ...

— Wheat Growing in Australia • Australia Department of External Affairs

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... with cocaine," murmured the comedian. "His figure works out, as nearly as I can estimate it, at 10s 7 1/2d. a grain. I saw him about it yesterday afternoon, pointing out to the brown guy that as the wholesale price is roughly 2 1/4d., I regarded his margin of profit ...

— Dope • Sax Rohmer

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Words linked to "Margin of profit" : ratio