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UK
/pɹˈɒfɪtəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈpɹɑfətəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɑfətəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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yielding material gain or profit
profitable speculation on the stock market
How To Use profitable In A Sentence
- One of the problems with this kind of pricing is that it has a tendency to hammer the less profitable stores or chains, such as Borders. September « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
- So no matter how boneheaded an incompetent manager I am, my department is 100% guaranteed to be profitable as long as I'm good at keeping my receipts?
- Competitors have been able to cherry pick the profitable areas, such as business mail. Times, Sunday Times
- The more customers that sign up, the more profitable this company becomes, since it earns interest on escrowed payroll taxes from customers.
- Underlying all decisions about subcontracting is the desire to make the entire project profitable.
- Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
- This is an unprofitable business and it is not confined to Britain's biggest supermarket chain.
- With Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, he has created his own pay-per-view series, the profitable 'Latin Fury', which he stocks with his vast array of Mexican and Puerto Rican standouts.
- Regulation is making banking much less profitable than it used to be. Times, Sunday Times
- How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world