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Studious of profit. Sir T. Browne.

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• 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.
• PROFITING
  Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15.
• STUDIOUS
  1. Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar. 2. Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative. Locke. 3. Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive;
• PROFITLESS
  Without profit; unprofitable. Shak.
• UNPROFIT
  Want of profit; unprofitableness. Wyclif.
• OVERSTUDIOUS
  Too studious.
• UNPROFITED
  Profitless. Shak.
• DISPROFIT
  Loss; damage. Foxe.
• IMPROFITABLE
  Unprofitable.
• DISPROFITABLE
  Unprofitable.