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Profit vs. Avail — What's the Difference?

Profit vs. Avail — What's the Difference?

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Profit

An advantageous gain or return; benefit.

Avail

Avail is an American punk rock band from Richmond, Virginia, United States. Originally from Reston, Virginia, the band formed in 1987, its members including Joe Banks, Doug Crosby, Brien Stewart, and Mikey Warstler.

Profit

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.

Avail

To be of use or advantage to; help
Nothing could avail the dying patient.

Profit

To make a gain or profit.
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Avail

To be of use, value, or advantage; serve
Halfway measures will no longer avail.

Profit

To derive advantage; benefit
Profiting from the other team's mistakes.

Avail

Use, benefit, or advantage
Labored to no avail.

Profit

To be beneficial to
What has all this time in school profited you?.

Avail

To turn to the advantage of.
I availed myself of the opportunity.

Profit

Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.

Avail

(transitive) To be of service to.
Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

Profit

Benefit, positive result obtained.
Reading such an enlightening book on the subject was of much profit to his studies.

Avail

(transitive) To promote; to assist.

Profit

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Avail

(intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
The plea in court must avail.
This scheme will not avail.
Medicines will not avail to halt the disease.

Profit

(transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).

Avail

To provide; to make available; to use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource).
You can avail discounts on food.

Profit

To benefit, gain.

Avail

Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
I tried fixing it, to no avail
Labor, without economy, is of little avail.

Profit

To take advantage of, exploit, use.

Avail

Proceeds; profits from business transactions.

Profit

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.

Avail

An advertising slot or package.

Profit

Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
This I speak for your own profit.
If you dare do yourself a profit and a right.

Avail

A press avail.
While holding an avail yesterday, the candidate lashed out at critics.

Profit

To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
The word preached did not profit them.
It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

Avail

Non-binding notice of availability for work.

Profit

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
I profit not by thy talk.

Avail

(oil industry) A readily available stock of oil.

Profit

To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Riches profit not in the day of wrath.

Avail

(obsolete) Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.

Profit

The excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

Avail

Effort; striving.

Profit

The advantageous quality of being beneficial

Avail

To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
O, what avails me now that honor high !

Profit

Derive a benefit from;
She profited from his vast experience

Avail

To promote; to assist.
Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names.
I have availed myself of the very first opportunity.

Profit

Make a profit; gain money or materially;
The company has not profited from the merger
I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!
The company turned a loss after the first year

Avail

To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
Words avail very little with me, young man.

Avail

Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
The avail of a deathbed repentance.

Avail

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
The avails of their own industry.

Avail

A means of serving;
Of no avail
There's no help for it

Avail

Use to one's advantage;
He availed himself of the available resources

Avail

Be of use to, be useful to;
It will avail them to dispose of their booty

Avail

Take or use;
She helped herself to some of the office supplies

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