at a profit

idiom

: so as to make money

We sold the house at a profit.

The business is running at a profit.

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Lutnick surrounded himself with friends and family, including his younger brother Gary, who colleagues said sometimes jumped ahead of customers with bond orders, purchasing some and then quickly offloading them to the customer at a profit. —

Dan Alexander, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 Private equity firms typically use a large amount of debt to buy companies and properties that the firms then try to sell at a profit after a few years. —

Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024 Hanoi responded by opening the state-run economy to private business, abolishing collective farms, and leasing land to individuals, who were allowed for the first time to sell their produce at a profit, at home or abroad. —

Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024 Plus, people aren’t only buying art NFTs to resell them at a profit. —

Jessica Klein, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for at a profit