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
Audit and tax remain highly profitable but offer little growth. Times, Sunday Times
The venture turned into a thriving and profitable business. Times, Sunday Times
'gombeen' behaviour will become unprofitable, and eventually legally prohibitive. Irish Blogs
This second Adam Winthrop, at the age of seventeen, went to London, binding himself as an apprentice for ten years under the well-esteemed and profitable guild of the "clothiers," or cloth-workers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
Nuclear power has always needed taxpayer handouts to make it profitable. Times, Sunday Times
A French, German, and Italian production that became another unprofitable film for Welles, the film was recently revived in a fully restored print.
The fletcher's business is profitable, and it even does well during war.
These highly profitable companies benefit from a benign business environment while their staff are being squeezed. Times, Sunday Times
Unprofitable contracts can be ended, and property burdened with onerous obligations disowned.
This step suggested that the most important resource for the exchange of ideas, and the surest to offer the most promising and profitable transnational education, was no longer anglicized Latin but rather rebranded English. The English Is Coming!
Analysts cautioned that all the companies involved should remain sober-minded and try to tackle the serious problem of how to maintain market development on a healthy and profitable track.
Another highly profitable niche is the greetings card industry. Times, Sunday Times
If she do not gravitate too irresistibly towards that class of New-Era people (which includes whatsoever we have of prurient, esurient, morbid, flimsy, and in fact pitiable and unprofitable, and is at a sad discount among men of sense), she may get into good tracks of inquiry and connection here, and be very useful to herself and others. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
The newspaper is believed to have been unprofitable for at least the past decade.
Before anything approaching a thorough and profitable study of the sounds of the American common speech is possible, there must be a careful assembling of the materials, and this, unfortunately, still awaits a phonologist of sufficient enterprise and equipment. Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation
Something you design and make could be profitable. The Sun
Another fact is that currency exchange is a profitable business because there is demand.
Some wheat farmers may be warming to the prospect of a new tool to help them grow more robust and profitable wheat, engineered to withstand herbicides.
Certainly, Theotimus, beauty is without effect, unprofitable and dead, if light and splendour do not make it lively and effective, whence we term colours lively when they have light and lustre. Treatise on the Love of God
Another of his profitable ventures was a school for slaves; Crassus purchased unskilled bondsmen, had them trained, and then sold them for handsome profits. Iris Erlingsdottir: Axing Art$ And Humanitie$
The new Alitalia is a private company owned by a group of Italian investors who have merged much of the old carrier's profitable assets with the much smaller Air One. First strike hits new Alitalia
Few questioned how a company which was not even profitable could be valued so highly.
Nuclear power has always needed taxpayer handouts to make it profitable. Times, Sunday Times
Those extra planes could provide more jobs for pilots - and allow the airline to fly more profitable point-to-point routes.
Chen opened a number of politically oriented enterprises, including highly profitable correspondence schools.
It has sufficient business traffic coming to London to enable these flights to be profitable. Times, Sunday Times
Therefore if they will maintaine the Russia trade with aduantage, then ought they to looke to this in time, so may they keepe the Russia trade as it is, and likewise make a trade in Lappia more profitable then that, and therefore this is to bee considered, rather then to prohibite The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It was a familiar setting and they were both looking forward to renewing a profitable business partnership.
The little cultivable lands we have remaining are under threat because as far as the greedy are concerned, housing developments and commerce are more profitable, hence important, than producing food.
If it becomes unprofitable for print, then obviously we will stop. Times, Sunday Times
These things being premised, I shall now set down and make public that proposal which heretofore I have tendered, as a means to give some light into a way for the profitable and comfortable practice of church government; drawing out of general notions what is practically applicable, so circumstantiated as of necessity it must be. The Sermons of John Owen
The only way I can see adding more doctors to those specialties is to make being a doctor profitable for them again. Senate committee starts revising health care reform proposal
Its main business was the safe but dull bills discounting - a sound and a profitable business as traders all over the country rarely ever dishonour their bills.
With hardly a credible debate on the rationale and justification of rapid disinvestment, some of the most profitable or strategically important public sector undertakings are being privatised.
And when you rechannel that negative energy in the right direction, it can prove to be profitable. Surviving in an Angry World
Its main asset is the Ingka Holding group, which is conservatively financed and highly profitable: post-tax profits were €1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) — an impressive margin of nearly 11% on sales of €12.8 billion — in the year to August 31st 2004, the latest year for which the group has filed accounts. Flat-pack accounting « Isegoria
The company is in the process of splitting off these more profitable operations, which include the Internet data services, into separate divisions or companies.
It's hardly surprising if he's behind with his rent and his new landlords have a more profitable venture in mind.
While preservationists can provide copious examples of how to deal with seemingly redundant historic buildings in a profitable fashion across the globe, Moscow has its own examples of what can and should be done.
The scalability of intangibles allows a few large and profitable firms to emerge, leaving the rest lagging behind. Times, Sunday Times
But taking on the grifters would destroy the show's reputation, which would mean a falloff in customers, more clems with the towners, and eventually being frozen off planet by most or all of the profitable stands that the show had developed. City of Baraboo
We will continue to work for the profitable and sustainable future of our fishing fleet.
This has become a profitable business for a few, and an effortless one for that.
Much of the land is said to be of marginal quality and of questionable profitable use. Times, Sunday Times
He said the weekly is profitable, but declined to disclose details.
As long as this aesthetic appreciation does not coincide with profitable necessity then this conflict will remain.
They are often non-profit organizations, and almost always unprofitable ventures.
Viable industries and business undertakings were rendered unprofitable.
May your finances profitable this year.
Your sharp intuition helps you solve mysteries in profitable ways. The Sun
He also discontinued unprofitable services, such as dating advisers.
You've got the determination to turn something you make at home into a profitable sideline. The Sun
An overarching priority is to reinforce professional staffing, which is much more profitable than clerical staff.
The business remains profitable and this is no time to sell assets like that. Times, Sunday Times
The business could become less profitable or, even worse , could close down.
That is what attracts investment from abroad and makes it profitable for domestic industry to invest as well.
To me, there are few things as beautiful as an ethical, profitable, customer-centered, well-run company.
Competitors have been able to cherry pick the profitable areas, such as business mail. Times, Sunday Times
The soaring price of copper and bronze has made such salvage profitable but the letter calls for the site to be protected. Times, Sunday Times
Agesilaus resolutely answered, on the behalf of Phoebidas, that the profitableness of the act was chiefly to be considered; if it were for the advantage of the commonwealth, it was no matter whether it were done with or without authority. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
This service could be offered by an electricity or gas supplier who could thereby make their business more profitable by selling less energy. Times, Sunday Times
Once patent life has ended, the manufacturers' price drops and parallel trading is barely profitable.
Who is there to run this vastly profitable business that has had every rule rewritten to serve its interests?
He notes that the northern grazing industry has usually been economically marginal, rarely very profitable.
We show a band around the interest parity line within which round-trip interest arbitrage is unprofitable. International Finance: The markets and financial management of multinational business.
Heavy doses of nitrogen fertiliser will tip the competitive balance in favour of grasses, and soon purple wood crane's bill, blood-red greater burnet, frothy white pignut and meadowsweet, yellow lady's bedstraw, globe flower and blue speedwells will vanish, leaving an "improved" pasture – more productive, more profitable, but oh-so dull. Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates
The price of copper and bronze has made salvage profitable. Times, Sunday Times
Our little corner shop is no longer a paying concern , ie is no longer profitable.
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
Not long ago, technology recruitment was one of the most active, and profitable, specialist areas within the Irish recruitment market.
Making the quotas transferable eliminates the problem of overcapitalization and increases efficiency, because the least efficient fishing operations find it more profitable to sell their quotas than to exploit them through continued fishing. Robert Stavins: Using Markets to Make Fisheries Sustainable
I understand how one can derive that measuring with a jigger is more precise, and perhaps more profitable for beverage operations. Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure
It shows how support for old clients can be profitable and provides advice on how to support them without slighting new clients.
When two halves of an old photograph are put together again, a family mystery is solved in a profitable way. The Sun
Now, I understand not hereby those doctrinal reproofs when, in the dispensation of that word of grace and truth which is "profitable for correction and reproof," 2 Tim.iii. 16, they speak, and exhort, and "rebuke" the sins of men "with all authority," Tit.ii. 15; but the occasional application of the word unto individual persons, upon their unanswerableness in any thing unto the truth wherein they have been instructed. The Sermons of John Owen
Another highly profitable niche is the greetings card industry. Times, Sunday Times
Robert W. Carter, of Sabine Hall_, on the Rappahanock, whose land is principally of that kind of clayey loam common upon that river, once rich but badly worn by cultivation, is so well satisfied that it is profitable to make rich lands still more rich, he buys annually 30 or 40 tons of the best in market. Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers
It's just another case of someone deciding that it's easier and more profitable to blame his problems on some faceless company instead of actually taking some responsibility.
Formerly slavery was looked upon as peculiarly pernicious to the diffusion of wealth and the progress of national greatness; now the South is intoxicated with ideas of the profitableness of slave labor, and the power of King Cotton in controlling the exchanges of the world. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
He knows it is his most profitable crop, and he is planting 300 trees every year, but he also grows coffee, cashews, star fruit, oranges and coconuts.
Banks encourage what is for them a profitable orgy of borrowing, and luxury imports surge.
First, he says "all things are lawful but not all things are profitable. Christianity Today
But there in lay their weaknesses also. Banks soon started to favour business that was profitable (ie, risky) but which, under Basel 1's crude definitions, escaped the appropriate capital charges.
The retailer wants to make his business as profitable as possible.
A resumption of profitable use would not be possible until the civil war came to an end.
Lady Anna -- who could think but little of her birth -- to whom it had been throughout her life a thing plaguesome rather than profitable -- could remember only what she had been in Cumberland, and her binding obligation to the tailor's son. Lady Anna
If you are seeking a highly profitable instant business, you will probably be disappointed-it does not exist.
And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
The reason of this 'profitableness' is the fact that the labor requires so little mental effort. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
The journey starts at her local Brooklyn sanitation division, then explodes into the world-wide business of waste disposal, which seems 1) very profitable and 2) largely an exercise in staving off the inevitable. Nightstand inspection! Who's reading something awesome? | EW.com
With only 20 million aging people, there was no profitable future in job boards in the recruitment advertising market in Australia.
Direct sale of beef to consumers is potentially profitable option for Kentucky's farmers.
In those ten years the research centre had helped Smith and Nephew to become much more profitable and has grown in stature - and in share price which bucked the recent downward stock market trend to end 2.5 times higher than a decade ago.
As you may guess installing toolbars on peoples machines by sneaking them in somehow is insanely profitable. Google’s Secret billion dollar revenue stream. « The Paradigm Shift
Yet the heathen gods are false gods; whereas Israel, in forsaking Me for other gods, forsake their "glory" for unprofitable idols. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The bulls were raised by wealthy landowners although we do not know whether, or to what extent, this was a profitable activity. A Social History of Modern Spain
A commercial bank has the dual objective of being able to meet currency withdrawals on demand and of putting its funds to profitable use. Collins Dictionary of Economics
So thus through the monuments of writing which is the testimony unto virtue many men have been moved, some to build cities, some to devise and establish laws right, profitable, necessary and behoveful for the human life, some other to find new arts, crafts and sciences, very requisite to the use of mankind. John Lyly
As long as this aesthetic appreciation does not coincide with profitable necessity then this conflict will remain.
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
The title was also changed in deference to Victorian decorum: the primmer suburban class was deterred by "ruddy" - considered a cuss word close to the obscenity of "bloody" - so Ruddygore became Ruddigore, under which name it went on to achieve a solidly profitable run of 288 performances. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
The bottom line is that it's not profitable.
It's a day of reunions with people you worked with before and could team up with again in more profitable ways. The Sun
Computron had been operating in the red but is now significantly reduced in size, thanks to spin-offs of some unprofitable noncore businesses.
But nevertheless, we note that the new cultus was threatening to eliminate the profitable pilgrimages to the pagan shrine.
This step suggested that the most important resource for the exchange of ideas, and the surest to offer the most promising and profitable transnational education, was no longer anglicized Latin but rather rebranded English. The English Is Coming!
The Government argued today that shutting down Australia's profitable tuna fishery and export industry would be reckless.
It was certainly more profitable, taking in $129m in the US and millions more worldwide, comfortably outgrossing the original, even in Japan.
Maloney said that one of the major effects of the dotcom implosion was to rid the market of unprofitable and uncompetitive firms.
Handsome buildings, profitable businesses and community focal points are being lost.
I.e., it should be so unpalatable, so unprofitable for a bank and its executives that they exhaust every private means of survival before coming for their public "reaming". Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Why are there profitable companies in unprofitable industries?
And also good and profitable vent and vtterance of the commodities of our Realme, and sundrie other great benefites to the aduancement of our honour and dignitie The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Less profitable business operations will have difficulty in finding financial support.
Many firms that were just fledgling start-ups in 2000 are now mature, profitable businesses.
Government props prevented the failure and liquidation of unproductive, unprofitable businesses and capital.
The answer is that it is one thing to find bums for all those seats, quite another to sell the seats at profitable prices.
The delay thus occasioned in my Fezzan expedition, I shall endeavour to make profitable to African geography, in another quarter. Travels in Nubia
We show a band around the interest parity line within which round-trip interest arbitrage is unprofitable. International Finance: The markets and financial management of multinational business.
On the one hand the overcall would take up bidding space, or might lead to a profitable sacrifice; on the other hand ... To overcall or not?
When profits were high I would do things like resurface the parking lot, or put in greener infrastructure like solar panels and things to make the place more sustainable and profitable. Archive 2008-11-01
The union says New York-based Verizon Communication Inc. is seeking $20,000 per worker in annual concessions, and workers bristle that their jobs are being characterized as unprofitable when, they say, their work help build the company's lucrative, non-union wireless business. FOXNews.com
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals
There will probably never be a more profitable time for fringe players to emerge. Times, Sunday Times
All evidence points to ecological technology being cost effective, if not shockingly profitable.
signboard," men sat and talked of their various trades, the cobbler, for instance, who is carved on the Cathedral stalls, with the clog-maker, and the wool-comber, and the carpenter, all met and gossiped of their latest piece of profitable business, while the lawyers discussed the never-ending question of the Privilège de St. Romain with some learned clerk over their "vin blanc d'Anjou. The Story of Rouen
And companies will stay in unprofitable research for a long time, but not forever.
Televangelism became immensely profitable, with many televangelists drawing in millions of dollars every year, far exceeding the budgets of entire denominations.
Again, with reference to the homology of the ossicles of the ear with the opercular bones in fish, "employing other resources equally hidden and rudimentary, Nature makes profitable use of the four tiny ossicles lodged in the auditory passage, and, raising them in fish to the greatest possible dimensions, forms from them these broad opercula ...." (p. 85). Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
[Sidenote: Discord in an armie the hinderer of all profitable enterprises.] if the two kings had not doone their best to appease the fraie begun. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
Similarly, the ecclesial intuitions of the Eastern and Reformed churches could become a very profitable complement to the Roman vision.
In fact the profitable spice trade, monopolized by the Dutch, was the reason for the establishment of the company.
Strangely enough, the petrol companies are not keen for their highly profitable world to change. Times, Sunday Times
First, he says "all things are lawful but not all things are profitable. Christianity Today
At these low prices it became profitable for large domestic buyers to try to evade sugar quotas. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
But then those who had come to see Putin as an economic liberal were taken aback by the crude expropriation of Yukos and renationalization of profitable private firms. The Return
These lines and in particular the freight business is unprofitable and not worth the costs it would take to improve them.
Those that go into diesel vehicles are six times more profitable to the company than the ones in petrol vehicles. Times, Sunday Times
Another day, another long-distance rail franchise becomes unprofitable. Times, Sunday Times
To the industrialists supplying the steel and to the owners of the shipyards, the battleship fleet plan could be presented as both patriotic and highly profitable. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
The opportunities for lucrative trading and the profitableness of overproduction which they made possible became almost immeasurable. Preaching and Paganism
Mobile phone companies must whoop in profitable delight over this technological anomaly. Times, Sunday Times
Taxation collected from the profitable private light industries and kulak run farms funded the state sponsored growth of heavy industry. Matthew Yglesias » A Reform Cabinet for Nigeria
Merchants and financiers soon realized that investing in science could be a profitable business.
The newspaper is believed to have been unprofitable for at least the past decade.
You can also conduct profit forecasts, identify profitable work and problem areas.
Meanwhile, the 'fintech' revolution is picking off profitable chunks of consumer finance. Times, Sunday Times
After Island Records billed him as the "African Bob Marley," he famously split in the mid-80s when the label proposed revamping his sound to stay relevant in the increasingly profitable World Music niche. Modiba: King Sunny Ade Tours "New America"
This is expected to result in the closure of 32 unprofitable lines and a reduction in staff numbers from 48,500 to 30,000.
It was a profitable niche business but his heart was not in it. Times, Sunday Times
Where on earth are clubs to fit in highly profitable foreign tours after preseason training? The Sun
We worked hard to make our time profitable. Christianity Today
When we visited last year, it was a middle-sized player aspiring to improve sales and profitability in a sector dominated by a few large rivals that were more profitable.
He encouraged private forestry where profitable, and public acquisition and use of other forest lands.
Janina knew that the chorus girls even after the most profitable performance received only fifty copecks on account and usually only two gold pieces or forty groszy. Komediantka. English
Shawn Hoffman wrote at Baseball Prospectus that the revelation that "payees" are profitable is actually good news for everybody, payors included. The Biz of Baseball :: Part of the Business of Sports Network
He managed bands and arranged gigs until the internet gave him a more profitable idea. Times, Sunday Times
They are right to argue that the proposals would make them less competitive and less profitable. Times, Sunday Times
Some analysts emphasize rising productivity and rising wages in the market economy that have made work outside the home increasingly profitable.
Corrigan wanted a profitable company but one employing non-union labour.
BT at its profitable peak was coining it at the rate of ￡90 a second.
No, but the consequence of applying contingencies to more profitable restaurants is different from the consequence of applying contingencies to less profitable restaurants.
Many of our suppliers have enjoyed decades of very profitable growth through their business with us. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
I imagine that as he has apparently ended his profitable relationship with BNFL he will need to up the expenses claims to compensate. Lord Foulkes revives expenses scandal
Then it is up to product and process design to come up with ways to turn those grand plans into profitable vehicles.
He conducted zero gravity research on animal stem cells, worthy, but unprofitable work.
None of this will make vaccines as glamorous - or as profitable - as drugs.
As mutual societies, they had to pass on the benefits of this investment, and other profitable activities, to their members, the depositors.
Misawa also debunked the view that substitute crops need to be more profitable than illegal opium.
It has already made three acquisitions, all of profitable businesses, and is believed to be eyeing up another two.
Historians have tended to overlook the possibilities of more rapid transit where the cargo concerned was profitable enough to merit it.
Gradually it was found more profitable to cultivate vines and olives rather than grain.
But drug companies carry out few trials involving children because drugs for juveniles are not very profitable and there are ethical difficulties in using youngsters as ‘guinea pigs’.
Having said this in his First Book of Good Deeds, he says again, that both commodiousness and grace pertain to mean or indifferent things, none of which according to them, is profitable. Essays and Miscellanies
There is no point in saying to yourself, "This is an unprofitable business and should be sold. Principles of Corporate Finance
Many local grain marketing and farm supply cooperatives are not consistently profitable.
UST provides Altria with the leading premium brands, Copenhagen and Skoal, in the highly profitable moist smokeless tobacco category, " he said.
This kind of violence has always been instigated with a hard shove from the economic royalists, who would rather have the lower classes killing each other on the courthouse lawns rather than going inside the courthouses to challenge the structural inequalities they find so profitable. BROAD CAST 8 SEPTEMBER 2007: REALITY OR REAL-LITE?
I imagine this is on the grounds that there can be no profitable reclamation of the goods in default of settlement!
It was left to the Yankee, Eli Whitney, to invent a machine which would make it profitable for southern farmers to grow short-fibered cotton to supply the busy factories of Europe.
The result will be profitable crops of other kinds of vegetables and a refreshing of the soil that will enable it to carry brassicaceous plants again, with but little risk of the recurrence of anbury. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
No doubt, with sufficient drainage, and great care in cultivation, and the tea plant might be made to exist in such a situation; but I am convinced it would never grow with that luxuriance which is necessary in order to render it a profitable crop. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Downsizing may seem like a backward step but if, at the end of the year, the reduced enterprise has rid itself of debt and put itself into a profitable position, it will have been the right move.
In Detroit, his father, Charles, took over a photo-finishing company that became large and profitable.
TimeWarner’s VOD and PPV are major variable bandwidth consumers and of course PPV is very profitable for TW. Time Warner Cable Says It Singled Out Austin’s Geeks
He studied the German market to find the potential there for profitable investment.
It is usually more profitable to sell direct to the public.
It is important, if it is to persist, that blogging should be a moderately profitable activity.
Another factor to consider under substantially gainful occupation is profitable but not productive.

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