profit_margin has definitions from the field of business
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[ noun ] (business) the ratio gross profits divided by net sales

Used in print

([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)

What 's your profit_margin ?

(Allan J. Braff and Roger F. Miller, "Wage-Price...)

The entry limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition , but unless general inflation permits profit_margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy , we might expect the public limit price to approach the entry limit price .

Disagreement on the amount of productivity increase exacerbates the problem of agreeing how an increase in profit_margins related to a productivity increase should be shared .

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ratio

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