"material profit" is correct and usable in written English.
It usually means tangible or measurable profit, as opposed to emotional or intellectual profit, and is often used when discussing businesses and investments. For example, "The company's material profit for the quarter is quite impressive, a 20% increase from last year."
And we should look long and hard at the assumptions we breed into our children about acquisition and individual material profit.
He wrote: "Ramdev has been in the business of converting spirituality into material profit … Religion became, in the process, the means for indulging in covetousness.
Meanwhile Alex DeGroote at Peel Hunt said the best option now was for someone to buy Blinkx: Blinkx has delivered another highly material profit warning.
Now I want to hear it will be going after those who review adversely, not for material profit but – which is far worse – in answer to the promptings of uneducated vanity.
According to the older understanding, the "discovery" of the Americas was a great triumph, one in which Columbus played the part of hero in accomplishing the four voyages, in being the means of bringing great material profit to Spain and to other European countries, and in opening up the Americas to European settlement.
Groupon's challenge remains as it always has been: That it can show material profit while also growing its revenue.
The buyout firm that acquired Learning Company, the troubled educational software firm, from Mattel said yesterday that the software maker was now in the black and would generate "material" profits in 2001.
The company said it plans to expand to 200 countries in the next two years, and to earn "material profits" from its operations overseas by 2017.
For many the goal is material gain, but profit is by no means the only motive.
The bill would make unauthorised streaming of copyrighted material for profit a felony (instead of the misdemeanor it is today), with a penalty of up to five years in prison.
The letter also states that Netflix's initial markets beyond the United States (namely "Canada, Latin America, the UK, Ireland, the Nordic countries and the Netherlands") have become profitable, and that the company will "generate material global profits from 2017 onwards".
