net

/net/ noun

Definition

› [U] (also net income, also net profit) US MONEY, TAX the amount of profit that a business has left after tax has been paid: The company's fourth-quarter net edged higher to $22.4 million from $22 million.

cast/spread your net wide › to include many people or things when you are looking for something or trying to do something: With unemployment in the area below 1%, it has had to cast its net wide to fill the 70 jobs it expects to create this year.

→ See also safety net → See Note gross

(Definition of net noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)