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paper profit

noun

Definitions

  1. Apparent profit shown in accounts but not realized in an expendable form.

    • The company had paper profits of two million dollars, but everyone knew that depreciation meant they had really lost 10 million.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paper profit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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