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"text": "If a company has $10,000 net income and $100,000 net sales, then the profit margin equals ($10,000 : $100,000) .10, or 10%."
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"ref": "2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian",
"text": "A letter demanding payment costs her £75. A knock on the door from a company representative: another £235. Taking her car: an extra £110. Then there’s a daily storage charge, so that she pays £24 for every day she can’t drive. These were fees set by the government, using the industry’s sums. The result is that the firms chasing some of the poorest people in the country can rake in handsome profit margins.",
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"word": "marge de benefici"
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"word": "marge de guany"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"word": "利潤率"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lìrùnlǜ",
"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"word": "利润率"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"word": "marge bénéficiaire nette"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"word": "marge nette"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"feminine"
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"word": "Gewinnspanne"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"word": "利鞘"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"word": "margem de lucro"
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"word": "profit margin"
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"text": "A letter demanding payment costs her £75. A knock on the door from a company representative: another £235. Taking her car: an extra £110. Then there’s a daily storage charge, so that she pays £24 for every day she can’t drive. These were fees set by the government, using the industry’s sums. The result is that the firms chasing some of the poorest people in the country can rake in handsome profit margins.",
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"word": "marge de guany"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"word": "利潤率"
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lìrùnlǜ",
"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"word": "利润率"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"word": "tuottoprosentti"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"tags": [
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"word": "marge bénéficiaire nette"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"word": "marge nette"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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"word": "Gewinnspanne"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"word": "利鞘"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"tags": [
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"word": "marża"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
"tags": [
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"word": "margem de lucro"
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"sense": "ratio of income to sales",
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