{
  "id": "profit.economic",
  "term": "profit",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "m2",
  "domain": "economic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a difference where more is than less after make and use",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "make.verb",
      "use.application",
      "difference.relation",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "make and use together give more than less",
    "novel_properties": [
      "net gain",
      "temporal comparison",
      "value creation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Walmart's 2023 revenue exceeded costs by $18.6 billion, sustaining operations across 10,500 stores.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hoover Dam generated $1.5 billion in electricity sales over 10 years, exceeding maintenance costs.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple's iPhone sales in 2022 created a $99.8 billion profit margin from production and global distribution.",
      "domain": "technology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "business.economic",
    "finance.economic",
    "financial.economic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "profit",
    "profitable",
    "profited",
    "profiting",
    "profits"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added difference.relation and time.dimension as constitutive components missing from record; they are required by the definition which depends on comparison over time."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-profit.economic"
}