Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Yielding profit; advantageous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Useful; advantageous; yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative: as, a profitable trade; profitable business.
- Synonyms Remunerative, productive, beneficial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Producing aprofit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective yielding material gain or profit
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Examples
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Eventually, talking about specifics, what we call profitable growth.
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They'll own her work and just license it to another company but they don't see how they can make a new label profitable, so have scrapped the idea.
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He also said GM decided to cancel plans to sell the ACDelco parts business, which he called a profitable arm of the company worth growing.
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They'll own her work and just license it to another company but they don't see how they can make a new label profitable, so have scrapped the idea.
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They'll own her work and just license it to another company but they don't see how they can make a new label profitable, so have scrapped the idea.
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They'll own her work and just license it to another company but they don't see how they can make a new label profitable, so have scrapped the idea.
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They'll own her work and just license it to another company but they don't see how they can make a new label profitable, so have scrapped the idea.
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They'll own her work and just license it to another company but they don't see how they can make a new label profitable, so have scrapped the idea.
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They'll own her work and just license it to another company but they don't see how they can make a new label profitable, so have scrapped the idea.
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The publishing industry has long known how profitable is to sell people the notion that they are right.
Blowhards. Part Two. 2010
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