# die Profitrate

die Profitrate is a German noun meaning “rate of profit, i.e. of the total value invested in a commodity the proportion that ends in the hands of the capitalist.”. Forms: der Profitrate, die Profitraten.

## Forms

- Genitive: der Profitrate
- Plural: die Profitraten

## In other languages

- Русский: экон. норма прибыли

## Meanings

1. _Marxism_ rate of profit, i.e. of the total value invested in a commodity the proportion that ends in the hands of the capitalist.
   - Wie schon gesagt, ist die Profitrate das Verhältnis des Mehrwerts zum vorgeschossenen Gesamtkapital, während die Mehrwertsrate das Verhältnis ist des Mehrwerts zum bloß variablen Teil dieses Kapitals. — The rate of profit is, as we have already said, the ratio of the surplus-value to the total capital advanced; the rate of surplus-value is the ratio of the surplus-value to the variable part of that capital.

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