nonprofit organization nonprofit not-for-profit | an organization chartered for other than profit-making activities |
allowance leeway margin tolerance | a permissible difference, allowing some freedom to move within limits |
margin | an amount beyond the minimum necessary, the margin of victory |
margin of safety safety margin margin of error | the margin required in order to insure safety, in engineering the margin of safety is the strength of the material minus the anticipated stress |
narrow margin narrowness slimness | a small margin, the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory, the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just % of the popular vote |
profit gain | the advantageous quality of being beneficial |
margin | the blank space that surrounds the text on a page, he jotted a note in the margin |
margin call call | a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement |
profit taker | someone who sells stock shares at a profit |
net income net net profit lucre profit profits earnings | the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other nonash expenses) |
paper profit | an unrealized gain on an investment calculated by subtracting the investor's cost from the current market price |
windfall profit | profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it |
gross profit gross profit margin margin | (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold |
margin of profit profit margin gross margin | the ratio gross profits divided by net sales |
profit sharing | a system in which employees receive a share of the net profits of the business |
margin security deposit | the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities |
margin account | an account with a securities brokerage in which the broker extends credit |
income statement earnings report operating statement profit-and-loss statement | a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period |
profit and loss profit and loss account | an account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or loss |
margin border perimeter | the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary |
profit turn a profit | make a profit, gain money or materially, The company has not profited from the merger |
profit gain benefit | derive a benefit from, She profited from his vast experience |
nonprofit non-profit-making | not commercially motivated |
profit-maximizing profit-maximising | making the profit as great as possible, the profit-maximizing price |