Word Meanings - AVAILMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Profit; advantage.
Related words: (words related to AVAILMENT)
- PROFIT
1. 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 - PROFITABLE
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. - ADVANTAGE
1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages - PROFITING
Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15. - ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
Profitableness. - ADVANTAGEABLE
Advantageous. - PROFITLESS
Without profit; unprofitable. Shak. - ADVANTAGEOUS
Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation - ADVANTAGEOUSLY
Profitably; with advantage. - UNPROFIT
Want of profit; unprofitableness. Wyclif. - DISADVANTAGE
1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. - UNPROFITED
Profitless. Shak. - DISPROFIT
Loss; damage. Foxe. - IMPROFITABLE
Unprofitable. - DISADVANTAGEABLE
Injurious; disadvantageous. Bacon. - DISADVANTAGEOUS
Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had - DISPROFITABLE
Unprofitable.