"profit warning" meaning in English

See profit warning in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: profit warnings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} profit warning (plural profit warnings)
  1. (stock market) An announcement by a company to its shareholders and other investors that its profits are likely to be less than expected. Wikipedia link: profit warning Categories (topical): Stock market Synonyms: profits warning Translations (an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected): tulosvaroitus (Finnish), alerte sur résultats [feminine] (French), Gewinnwarnung [feminine] (German), vinstvarning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-profit_warning-en-noun-4-fE-iEF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: business, finance, stock-market

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for profit warning meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "profit warnings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "profit warning (plural profit warnings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Stock market",
          "orig": "en:Stock market",
          "parents": [
            "Finance",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An announcement by a company to its shareholders and other investors that its profits are likely to be less than expected."
      ],
      "id": "en-profit_warning-en-noun-4-fE-iEF",
      "links": [
        [
          "stock market",
          "stock market"
        ],
        [
          "announcement",
          "announcement"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ],
        [
          "shareholder",
          "shareholder"
        ],
        [
          "investor",
          "investor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(stock market) An announcement by a company to its shareholders and other investors that its profits are likely to be less than expected."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "profits warning"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance",
        "stock-market"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected",
          "word": "tulosvaroitus"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "alerte sur résultats"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Gewinnwarnung"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "vinstvarning"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "profit warning"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "profit warning"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "profit warnings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "profit warning (plural profit warnings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Stock market"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An announcement by a company to its shareholders and other investors that its profits are likely to be less than expected."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stock market",
          "stock market"
        ],
        [
          "announcement",
          "announcement"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ],
        [
          "shareholder",
          "shareholder"
        ],
        [
          "investor",
          "investor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(stock market) An announcement by a company to its shareholders and other investors that its profits are likely to be less than expected."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance",
        "stock-market"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "profit warning"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "profits warning"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected",
      "word": "tulosvaroitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alerte sur résultats"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Gewinnwarnung"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an announcement by a company that its profits are likely to be less than expected",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vinstvarning"
    }
  ],
  "word": "profit warning"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.