profit margin
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- noun
- /ˈprɒfɪt ˈmɑːrdʒɪn/
- Specialized
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margen de beneficio
- If a reduction in the profit margin exists, then a reduction in cash exists.
- a high profit margin
- a low profit margin
- total profit margin
So we're seeing prices go down and hitting profit margins.
- So we're seeing prices go down and hitting profit margins.
- Because the profit margin on the truck is way better than the profit margin on a car.
- But if a book is selling really, really well hardcover, they will wait to push the paper back out because the profit margin is higher with hardcover.
- So what are some of the more, I don't know, maybe higher profit margin things that you might sell to that community once you created it.
- That because we have inflation, we're seeing companies raise prices simply to fatten their profit margins.
- Or is this a plan to kind of make that appear to be the case so that these that can then be sold at a very, very high profit margin?
- Oh, OK, is this a suggestion that maybe margin is actually better to the point where Tesla can cut prices and still maintain profit margins?
- I don't know what their profit margins are, but what I know, I know the, the market prices, I know the options, how they trade and so on.
- I want to know our gross profit margin.
Examples
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The key players are relatively few, and the profit margins are extremely high.
Academic text (2004) -
After all, you want to cover your expenses and work towards a good profit margin.
Academic text (2000) -
So it's, it's got like a a pretty good profit margin and it's going to get better.
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What else has that kind of profit margin?
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If you can sell it again, your profit margin should be even better the second time around.
Academic text (1993) -
Our profit margins are much higher on wine than fruit.
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Table 1 calculations include a 15 percent profit margin on capital and operating expenses.
Academic text (2001) -
Such firms must ensure that profit margins do not fall too low by controlling costs and investments carefully.
Academic text (1996) -
The goal of North End Fisheries... is to consistently increase our annual profit margin.
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The insurance companies' profit margin is often between 3% and 5%.
Synonyms
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The amount a seller keeps after costs, usually shown as a percent
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The percent of sales that remains as money after paying costs
How Profitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'profit margin' is directly and compositionally derived from 'profit' (net gain) and 'margin' (difference/percentage) so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the difference between cost and selling price, often expressed as a percentage. This noun+noun construction is transparent and common across many languages and business contexts, making it readily understandable to B1 learners familiar with the constituents.
Etymology
Profit margin comes from the image of a thin margin or edge between two numbers: what something costs and what you sell it for. So, the profit is the small 'gap' between cost and price, and the term now shows how much money a product or business makes.