Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Yielding profit; advantageous or lucrative. See Synonyms at beneficial.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Useful; advantageous; yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative: as, a profitable trade; profitable business.
- Synonyms Remunerative, productive, beneficial.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. yielding material gain or profit
Examples
“The publishing industry has long known how profitable is to sell people the notion that they are right.”
“One of the key pillars for being profitable is being organised and planning your book and your marketing.”
Product Review: Published and Profitable: Plan, Write, Promote, Profit. | The Creative Penn
“The Unbeliever: Of course, no one has a right to have their chosen profession remain profitable in the face of changing industry or economic climate.”
“Of course, no one has a right to have their chosen profession remain profitable in the face of changing industry or economic climate.”
“Last week, I wrote an article for CNBC, which talked about the agility of Qantas that keeps the airline in profitable territory.”
“In a society that runs on the maxim that a person should be rewarded for the desirable abilities they possess, it makes little sense for college football players playing in profitable programs to be penalized for capitalizing on their talent, while the institutions they play for unabashedly do so.”
“No segment of business or industry can remain profitable if it is subjected to an increase of investment, and competition, without limit.”
Social Security Privatization Debated, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Words starting with PRO
I've noticed many, many words start with PRO and this is just a collection of them.
professional, pronunciation, Prolagus, probable, prog, proximity, profit, procrastincate, prom, pronoun, promise, proactive and 206 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Mis-abled
Words of the form "X-able" which do not mean "able to be Xed".
comfortable, valuable, profitable, knowledgeable, table, sable, durable
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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March 2nd
struggle, profitable, dismal, sated, sapped, scrap, recouped
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