profitable
/profitable/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Yielding material gain or profit: Describes an activity, business, or investment that results in financial gain or monetary benefit.
- Beneficial or useful: Can describe something that provides a positive, advantageous, or worthwhile result, not necessarily financial.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The company's new strategy proved to be highly profitable.
- Investing in renewable energy is both environmentally sound and profitable.
- She found the training course to be a profitable use of her time.
Advanced Usage
- "to make (something) profitable": to cause an enterprise to yield a profit.
- The new manager's changes finally made the branch profitable.
- "proved profitable": was shown to be advantageous or gainful.
- His extensive research proved profitable for the project's success.
Variants and Related Words
- Profitability (n): The state or degree of yielding profit or financial gain.
- Investors are concerned about the long-term profitability of the venture.
- Profitably (adv): In a way that yields profit or benefit.
- She invested her inheritance profitably.
Synonyms
- Lucrative: Producing a great deal of profit.
- Gainful: Serving to increase wealth or resources.
- Remunerative: Financially rewarding; profitable.
- Advantageous: Involving or creating favorable circumstances.
Antonyms
- Unprofitable: Not yielding profit or financial gain.
- Loss-making: Resulting in a financial loss.
Related Phrases
- A profitable enterprise: A business or undertaking that generates profit.
- They turned their hobby into a profitable enterprise.
- Turn a profit: To begin to make money from a business venture.
- The startup expects to turn a profit within three years.
Adjective
- yielding material gain or profit
- profitable speculation on the stock market