clear profit



dividend, earnings, gain, gains, get, gleaning, gross, hoard, income, interest, killing, lucre, makings, net, paper profits,









   knock-down-and-drag-out - affray, altercation, bickering, boisterous, brawl, broil, dispute, fight, fracas, fray, free-for-all, hassle, knockabout, rhubarb, riot,

   buffoonish - apish, asinine, batty, beguiled, besotted, brainless, cock-eyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dizzy, doting, dumb,

   ordained - condemn, destined, devoted, doomed, elect, fatal, fated, fateful, in store, in the cards, inevitable, marked, predetermined, written ,

   roseate - auspicious, bright, cheerful, cheery, encouraging, hopeful, likely, millenarian, optimistic, perfectionist, pink, primrose, promising, rose, rosy,

   off base - aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, bad, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, disorderly, disruptive, evil, hardly the thing, ignominious, ill-considered,

   rocket power - action and reaction, atomic power, electric power, horsepower, hydraulic power, hydroelectric power, impulse, jet power, jet propulsion, manpower, nuclear power, piston power, power plant, propulsion, ram-jet propulsion,

   leukocyte - Rh factor, antibody, antigen, arterial blood, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor centre, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure,

   due reward - comeuppance, deserts, dues, merit ,

   theatre of war - battlefield, field, firing line, front, front line, line, shambles, theatre ,

   nervy - agitated, all nerves, apprehensive, beefy, bluff, bold, bouncing, brash, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, discomposed, disquieted,