"paper profit" meaning in All languages combined

See paper profit on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: paper profits [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} paper profit (plural paper profits)
  1. Apparent profit shown in accounts but not realized in an expendable form.
    Sense id: en-paper_profit-en-noun-HpSU-HfK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "text": "The company had paper profits of two million dollars, but everyone knew that depreciation meant they had really lost 10 million.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Apparent profit shown in accounts but not realized in an expendable form."
      ],
      "id": "en-paper_profit-en-noun-HpSU-HfK",
      "links": [
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          "profit",
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        ],
        [
          "account",
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        ],
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          "expendable"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paper profit"
}
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