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profitable

[prof-i-tuh-buhl]

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adjective

yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.

beneficial or useful.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see profit, -able

Related forms

prof·it·a·bil·i·ty, prof·it·a·ble·ness, noun

prof·it·a·bly, adverb

non·prof·it·a·bil·i·ty, noun

non·prof·it·a·ble, adjective

non·prof·it·a·ble·ly, adverb

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non·prof·it·a·ble·ness, noun

sub·prof·it·a·ble, adjective

sub·prof·it·a·ble·ness, noun

sub·prof·it·a·b·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
2. advantageous, valuable, helpful.

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Example Sentences

For decades, infant formula was a placid, magisterially profitable industry with a captive market of newborns.

Profitable business operations may hide activities that add no benefit to the bottom line.

After all, collusion is a profitable side business that sometimes involves even the senior officials at a utility.

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For decades, infant formula was a placid, magisterially profitable industry with a captive market of newborns.

Profitable business operations may hide activities that add no benefit to the bottom line.

After all, collusion is a profitable side business that sometimes involves even the senior officials at a utility.

They are not profitable any more than any type of transportation infrastructure is profitable.

They will find a way to make off planet jobs and research profitable.

Beekeeping can be a fascinating hobby, a profitable sideline, or a full-time occupation.

In a sign of small-business success, the fund could become profitable in the spring.

So you can attract, engage, and retain more students while achieving profitable growth.

Companies often find it profitable to vary their prices according to customers' willingness to pay.

Pol a part of their family as he plays an integral role in keeping their livestock healthy and their business profitable.

It is extremely profitable for the producer and investor in the absence a high cost of a technologies.

These models, however, were lens veterans who knew how best to show off their profitable bone structure.

Yelp, which makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising contracts with local businesses, is not yet profitable.

The university would make money if the investments were profitable.

American colonialists long ago ran big, profitable mines in the country.

It was these profitable caravans, in fact, that first brought scholars to congregate at the site.

Although it is more profitable to trust, doing so leaves the investor at risk of betrayal.

But the repayment of debt requires money made by the profitable production and sale of goods and services.

Some traditional newspaper firms dismiss free papers, saying they are not profitable.

Now they understand that protecting their former prey can be far more profitable.

Turbines often have to be smaller and fewer to minimize these impacts, leading to less profitable projects.

Big sporting events are not as profitable as their hosts expect.

Several companies have tried and failed to make the venture profitable.

Yields are a bit less, but profitable and insurance comes from the diversity.

It is not yet clear that transmedia storytelling is profitable in its own right.

Wilderness in those days was a commodity to be tamed and brought to profitable service, not admired for its own sake.

But the long-term threat to the highly profitable business of journal publishing is unmistakable.

But then, by some measures, supermarket loss-leaders are also profitable because they bring in customers who buy other products.

Thus they were not unduly frightened by my presence, and observations were extremely profitable.

It is less profitable getting guys up on a tiny or shaded roof to put in a small system.

Those that survive remain ungainly and are not profitable enough.

The kids found selling newspapers was more profitable than begging.

Good and profitable is the visit to that noble temple, notwithstanding the arduous patois of scientific matters.

But he quickly shed unprofitable, mostly domestic routes, increased service on profitable ones and cut the labour force.

Frequent power cuts make running a productive and profitable business challenging.

At current natural gas prices, it's arguable whether any shale gas play is profitable.

The new clients were profitable, if not as profitable as the borrowers already on their books.

It's all the right stuff for a viable and profitable way to space.

Uh, lets see, maybe its more profitable to do endless research to produce vaccines.

By adding fees, reducing capacity and consolidating, the industry has become profitable again.

Maybe the really profitable thing would be to write our own students' papers and pocket all the cash.

And all the lines of business that had been profitable before the downturn would be profitable once again.

The next great challenge will be creating profitable space enterprises.

Their return to advertising this quarter is a way to capture the profitable back-to-school market.

Some technology companies, young and profitable enough to indulge creative.

The ones who do benefit are the profitable ones that don't need the help in the first.

There is a more profitable model than selling high end tablets.

Louis the packs of profitable furs his company was expecting.

They have an opportunity to become profitable this year".

Poor returns have led some investors to question whether venture capital is still a profitable model.

These barely profitable companies, propped up by cheap bank loans, include railways that expanded into property and.

Those numbers aren't good enough to sustain a profitable croc farm.

We attack many ships everyday, but only a few are ever profitable.

In one recent case, a profitable magazine was closed down for not being profitable enough.

Education can be profitable to both student and school.

Gol may find that the long-haul business is less profitable than expected.

Collecting used ones for recycling can even be a profitable fund-raiser for groups.

Expansion of profitable system of creating thousands of free educational videos.

Smaller outlets can also be more profitable than big stores, even though renting and supplying them is dearer:.

It's getting as profitable as selling dangerous illegal.

Will they cut departments and programs that are profitable or will they start cutting the expenses.

Apple has helped to smash profitable albums into less profitable singles.

And the common element of all of these is that these chemicals are the profitable products of chemical companies.

Such businesses lack glamour and visibility but can be highly profitable.

Deep staff cuts and wage reductions are unavoidable if the airline is to shrink to a profitable core.

Joe can set aside huge swaths for wildlife to compensate for developing their more profitable coastal properties.

Many firms sold their vaccine divisions to concentrate on more profitable drugs.

This, and the alarming increase in rhino poaching show how enormously profitable this gruesome trade has become.

The result will be safer but less profitable banks across much of the developed world.

In the normal course of events, following the crowd may be more profitable.

Big and slow is always more profitable than small and fast in the transportation industry.

The strategy is profitable in the long run only if the predator can recoup the losses later.

Paranoia is fun but seldom profitable other than to those selling to the paranoiacs.

The company she founded has been profitable in only one of the last eight years.

Medical research can have big rewards-both in gratifying discoveries and in potentially turning them into profitable treatments.

It is less profitable to integrate them into the grid because of their intermittent nature.

Profitable for some and costly for others and today, ozone is always with us as a pollutant.

In other words, the task forced a choice between a correct answer and the more profitable answer.

If they can't invest in profitable companies, health insurance premiums would.

Perhaps it would be more profitable to consider the time scales which concern people.

The method has to be cheap or even profitable to be realistic.

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World English Dictionary

profitable (ˈprɒfɪtəb^əl)

—*adj*
	affording gain, benefit, or profit

'profitably

—*adv*

'profitableness

—n

profita'bility

—n

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