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profitable
Part of speech: Noun Part of speech: AdjectiveYielding or bringing gain or benefit; useful; paying; as, a profitable business.
Part of speech: AdverbProfitably.
Usage examples "profitable":- It would be kind of you to help to make it more profitable. - "Betty Trevor", Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey.
- In after times he said that the experience gained in a newspaper office was almost as profitable to him as the knowledge of mathematics. - "Cavour", Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco.
- But she never encouraged this sort of intimacy with gentlemen who did not pay their bills, or with those whose dealings with the house were not of a profitable nature. - "Ralph the Heir", Anthony Trollope.