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P/L

P/L is the initialism of profit and loss.

Meaning of profit and loss

Noun

profit and loss (uncountable)

  1. A profit-and-loss statement; an income statement.
    • That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means...2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45
    Synonyms:
    P and L, P & L, P/L, profit and loss statement

Forms of P/L

pluralP/Ls

Questions about P/L

What is P/L the initialism of?
P/L is the initialism of profit and loss.

Words near P/L in the dictionary

  1. P/F ratio
  2. P/F ratios
  3. P/Fs
  4. p/h
  5. P/Invoke
  6. P/L
  7. P/Ls
  8. p/m
  9. P/N
  10. p/w
  11. P0

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Adapted from Wiktionary: P/L (page history and authors); profit and loss (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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