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prof·it·eer
/ ˌpräfəˈti(ə)r/
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v. [intr.]
make or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit, esp. illegally or in a black market:
[as n.] (profiteering)
the profiteering of tabloid journalists.
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n.
a person who profiteers:
a war profiteer.
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Profit sharing today: plans and provisions. (Bureau of Labor Statistics survey)
Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review; 4/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Employee Benefits Survey, profit-sharing plans are defined...contributions, based on profits, to individual employee...To be considered a profit-sharing plan in the...early 1900's offered profit sharing as a means of...believed that sharing profits would unite workers and...
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Profits interest - converting compensation to capital gains and other planning ideas.
Magazine article from: Florida Bar Journal; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...hurdle rate" in which the profits interest is only paid after...clawback" under which the profits interest recipient must repay...in a later year the agreed profit targets of the fund are not...mark" provision in which a profits interest is suspended if the...
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Non-profits face unique leasing challenges.(Supplement: Annual Review and Forecast, section 1)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 1/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...designated non-profit buildings, like...that provide non-profits with tax cuts. These...more and more non-profits are purchasing space...years, some non-profit clients have been...renovating space for non-profit tenants. Other landlords...traffic some non-profits serve. ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Profits for life: insurance accounting.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/7/1992; 700+ words
; ...more of the future profit on life policies...predictable, so most profits should not be deemed...as that year's profit. Embedded value...subsidiaries, so that their profits may be more readily...published embedded-profit figures since 1989...compared these with profits based on ...
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Profit-shares, bargaining, and unemployment
Magazine article from: Economic Inquiry; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...that model, a mandated profit share lowers wages and raises net profits, thereby inducing the...The introduction of profit sharing does not produce...free entry eliminates profits and thus any direct effect of profit sharing on reservation...
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Profits for major stores jump 77.4% in 1983.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 8/23/1984; ; 700+ words
; ...against 17 per cent. Profits increased 25.7...the category. The profit-to-sales was...from 31. Combined profits rose 40.2 per cent...8 per cent. The profit-to-sales ratio...s average, and profit-to-sales were...Woolworth posted profits of $118,000...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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PROFITS TOO OFTEN DISCOUNTED.(BUSINESS)(Small business)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 8/28/2000; 700+ words
; ...rediscovered the importance of profits, and then noticed that...remotely close to earning a profit anytime in the near future...debt it can secure. Profit and cash flow go hand...understand the importance of profits. Many of them buy into...t supposed to show a profit for as long as five ...
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For-profit versus not-for-profit delivery of long-term care
Magazine article from: Canadian Medical Association. Journal; 1/2/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...care services that are delivered either by for-profit or not-for profit agencies. A systematic review of patient outcomes...hospitals by ownership status showed that not-for-profit hospitals tended to produce better results.1 Although...
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Accounting for profit
Magazine article from: CA Magazine; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...what is entitled to a share of profit on profits to be disgorged or damages...a reinvestment of the above profits (profit on profit). Judge Addy stated...funding but for the infringing profits, the profit produced by the specific use...
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Profits Up 198% for State Companies
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 3/25/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...to $11.4 billion. Profit margins, reflecting the sharply higher profits, rose almost three...increasing sales, profits and profit margins in at least...Inc. recorded higher profits and profit margins. Fleming Companies...
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Profit Margin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business
...profit margin and profit rate. Profit margin measures the flow of profits over some period compared with...Thus, one could compute the profit margin on costs (profits divided by costs) or the profit margin on sales (profit margin...
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Profits
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Profits Any discussion of profits must carefully distinguish between profits at the microeconomic level of the firm and profits at the macroeconomic or aggregate level, that is, in the economy as a whole. In mainstream economics, the existence...
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Profit Center
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business
...convert service units into profit centers by two basic stratagems...generate revenues. Thus "profit center" has taken on a new meaning as a search for higher profits by putting pressures on functions...course, have both cost and profit centers — even the...
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Profit Sharing
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business
...BLS data also indicate that profit sharing bonuses (excluding...to such bonuses. TYPES OF PROFIT-SHARING PLANS Companies use...calculate the distribution of profits to their employees and have...under which employees receive a profit-sharing distribution at the...
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Excess Profits Tax
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
EXCESS PROFITS TAX EXCESS PROFITS TAX. The Excess Profits Tax, a predominantly wartime fiscal instrument, was designed primarily to capture wartime profits that exceeded normal peacetime profits. In 1863 the Confederate congress and the state...
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