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| advance |
If someone advances you money, they give you money to support something that you want to do. They usually expect you to pay them back, or they expect to make some profit from what you are going to do. [1/5 definitions] |
| merchant |
one who buys goods and sells them for a profit. [1/3 definitions] |
| net2 |
to result in or get as net profit. [1/3 definitions] |
| profit |
If you sell something for more than you paid for it, you make a profit. If a store buys something for two dollars and sells it for five dollars, they make a profit of three dollars. When we talk about the profits of a business, we mean the money that the business makes. [3 definitions] |
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