Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a profitable manner; with gain; gainfully; usefully; advantageously.

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  • adverb In a profitable manner, in a way that achieves profit or gain.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a productive way

Etymologies

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profitable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It would seem obvious, therefore, that industrial firms and utilities have a responsibility to ensure that their ability to produce goods and services profitably is not impaired by either their own ignorance of Government objectives, or by Government's misunderstanding of business objectives.

    Bell is Big Business 1964

  • Well, notice that government was not trying to get a man to the moon profitably, which is more akin to the challenge here.

    The Green Energy Economy Reconsidered 2011

  • Titanic's makers used the idea profitably, only they bumped off poor boy instead.

    The Times of India 2010

  • 'profitably' … because tax dollars only stretch do far.

    Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas 2009

  • Thanks to copyright protection the film industry could profitably distribute its product to theaters around the country.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Thanks to copyright protection the film industry could profitably distribute its product to theaters around the country.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • One can still profitably turn to a classic account such as James Henry Breasted's "A History of Egypt" 1905.

    Beyond the Pharaohs Joseph Manning 2011

  • In addition to the long-standing debate over the environmental impacts of drilling, public officials now are raising questions about whether some companies have accurately represented the amount of gas they can profitably produce.

    New York Subpoenas Natural-Gas Explorers Daniel Gilbert 2011

  • But torrid competition from Asia has pushed up prices for raw timber, leaving Hampton's mill surrounded by trees it can't profitably mill and sell to the struggling U.S. housing industry.

    Log Exports Hammer Lumber Mills Joel Millman 2011

  • In the primitive trading days he had been a power over his people, and he had dealt profitably with the white trading companies.

    The Wit of Porportuk 2010

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