profitable
adjective
yielding profit; remunerative.
profitably
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a word derived from
profitable.
Example Sentences
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First in HM Prison Belmarsh and then in HM Prison Weyland, Archer used his incarceration profitably - by writing a three-volume account of his time inside entitled My Prison Diary.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
People willing to pay more will continue to fly, and the carriers that can attract those people will get the fuel they need to fly their planes profitably.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
If things go wrong, tech companies will be paying an expensive tab for infrastructure that they can’t profitably use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
He wrote that Amazon Web Services is “coming through the capex digestion phase faster, and more profitably, than feared,” in a reference to how the company is translating its capital expenditures into financial opportunities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
If you have so much time to spare, I suggest it might be more profitably spent taking some fresh air.'
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
