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disprofit en · NOUN

Etymology

From dis- + profit.

Meanings

1. Loss; damage.
   • Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative. 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
   • And whereas he sought profit, he fell into double disprofit, that neither with good men he could avoid secret shame 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

disprofit en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + profit.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

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