profitable
Americanadjective
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yielding profit; remunerative.
a profitable deal.
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beneficial or useful.
- Synonyms:
- helpful, valuable, advantageous
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonprofitability noun
- nonprofitable adjective
- nonprofitablely adverb
- nonprofitableness noun
- profitability noun
- profitableness noun
- profitably adverb
- subprofitable adjective
- subprofitableness noun
- subprofitably adverb
Etymology
Origin of profitable
Example Sentences
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Two big things going for Forgent: The company is profitable and revenue is growing rapidly.
From Barron's
To be sure, there may be some profitable and attractively valued software companies that have been unfairly punished in the AI meltdown.
From Barron's
Two big things going for Forgent: The company is profitable and revenue is growing rapidly.
From Barron's
To be sure, there may be some profitable and attractively valued software companies that have been unfairly punished in the AI meltdown.
From Barron's
And for much of the past decade, the industry’s growth made for profitable investments.
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