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profit and loss account

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Word History and Origins

Origin of profit and loss account1

First recorded in 1720–30

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Example Sentences

Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.

She is using this technique, which generations of African-Americans have used for survival, for fame and profit.

Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

Albuquerque Economic Development, a private non-profit, estimates the five year growth rate at almost double the U.S. in general.

Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?

Nearly all our great intervales might be irrigated immensely to the profit of their cultivators.

There was a great comparing of papers, and turning over of leaves, by Fogg and Perker, after this statement of profit and loss.

My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?

It means enough not to satisfy them, and to leave the selling price of the things made at the point of profit.

Only I fear they will not profit us much; for if my eyes deceive me not, both are already captured.

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