PROFIT AND LOSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profit and loss mean? 

• PROFIT AND LOSS (noun)
  The noun PROFIT AND LOSS has 1 sense:

1. an account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or loss

  Familiarity information: PROFIT AND LOSS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFIT AND LOSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or loss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

profit and loss; profit and loss account

Hypernyms ("profit and loss" is a kind of...):

account; account statement; accounting (a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance)

 Context examples 

He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)