The phrase "ample profit" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiomatic expression which means to have a large or plentiful amount of profit. Example: After several difficult years, the company finally enjoyed ample profit.
In good times, Detroit made ample profits, despite paying generous wages, Mr. Shaiken notes.
The financial statements obtained by The Post for "Mariner Finance LLC" indicate ample profits.
But on Thursday it said those products would be more expensive to make, nibbling into its ample profits.
Big businesses have become "financialised" as they have ample profits to finance investment, rely less on banks for loans and play financial games with available funds.
But the big S.U.V.'s provided such ample profits that Detroit was still able to keep its plants running, its workers paid.
Moreover, with ample profits to be made, financing should be easy to attract.Yet if there are so many lucrative opportunities to improve efficiency, why are investors not already taking advantage of them?
After all, as Mr. Brill shows, these so-called nonprofit hospitals typically have ample profits that would permit humane comportment in billing the uninsured while paying executives enough to retain them.
And this is only a tiny sample of struggles underway over much of the world, some involving extreme violence, as in the Eastern Congo, where millions have been killed in recent years to ensure an ample supply of minerals for cell phones and other uses, and of course ample profits.
They work to convince the public that the Muslim Brotherhood is pursuing a grand plan to infiltrate and subvert the United States, facilitated by Americans' complacency, and in the process earn ample profits, judging by the flourishing cottage industry of books, videos, Web sites, and training courses for police departments.
It has not paid dividends for seven years, and although Perini now has ample profits, and pays management incentive bonuses that dwarf the annual dividend that accrues each year, the board has served notice it has no intention of ever paying.
