expense vs profit

expense

noun
  • A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds. 

  • The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated. 

verb
  • To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works. 

profit

noun
  • Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. 

verb
  • To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody). 

  • To take advantage of, exploit, use. 

  • To benefit, gain. 

How often have the words expense and profit occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )