| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  n t |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Business a. Remaining after all deductions have been made, as for expenses: net profit. b. Remaining after tare is deducted: net weight. 2. Ultimate; final: the net result. | | NOUN: | 1. Business A net amount, as of profit or weight. 2. The main point; the essence: the net of our discussion. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: net·ted, net·ting, nets
1. To bring in or yield as profit. 2. To clear as profit. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, elegant, remaining after deductions, from Old French, elegant, and from Old Italian netto, remaining after deductions, both from Latin nitidus, clean, elegant. See neat1.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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