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profiter — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • avail verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
  • benefit noun An advantage, gain, or help that comes from something.
  • leverage noun Power or influence used to get an advantage or achieve a desired result.
  • profit noun The financial gain made after subtracting costs from revenue.
  • scrounge verb To search for or obtain something, especially by asking others or making do with what is available.

Senses

profiter is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • benefit (intransitive) To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.
  • cash in (figurative, often, followed by on) To profit from something; to take advantage of an opportunity in order to profit, especially financially; to capitalize on.
  • leverage (transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).
  • make the most of (idiomatic, transitive) To realise the maximal value, worth, or potential of (something); to derive as much benefit or profit from (something) as is possible.
  • profit (transitive) To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
  • profit (intransitive, construed with from) To benefit, gain.
  • scrounge (intransitive) To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.

avail — full definition

  1. verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
  2. noun Use or benefit, especially in the phrase "to no avail," meaning without success.

benefit — full definition

  1. noun An advantage, gain, or help that comes from something.
  2. noun A payment provided under an insurance policy or government support scheme.
  3. verb To gain an advantage; to be helped by something.

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