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7. obtain a financial advantage or benefit, especially from an investment.
9. income, especially when of a company or organization and of a substantial nature.
12. the state of being a partner or partners.
13. a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
15. a system of money in general use in a particular country.
16. a person or thing that directs or regulates something.
19. a practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a premium.
23. the state of wanting to know or learn about something or someone.
24. the cost required for something; the money spent on something.
25. a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.

1. an event or contest in which people compete.
2. a useful or valuable thing, person, or quality.
3. the action of inflating something or the condition of being inflated.
4. the possession of assets in excess of liabilities; ability to pay one's debts.
5. a person appointed to administer or manage the financial assets and liabilities of a society, company, local authority, or other body.
6. make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide.
8. relating to government revenue, especially taxes.
10. merchandise or possessions.
11. a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).
14. a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.
17. the state of being responsible for something, especially by law.
18. an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time.
20. a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to a manual or unskilled worker.
21. an insistent and peremptory request, made as if by right.
22. a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.