profitableness

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profitableness

The company's profitableness is evident in its growing revenue.

Definition

Noun: 1. The quality of affording gain, benefit, or profit: The state or characteristic of yielding a financial or material advantage. 2. The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome: The characteristic of suggesting a high likelihood of future success or positive results.

Usage and Examples
  • Referring to financial or material gain:

    • The profitableness of the new product line convinced the board to approve further investment.
    • Investors carefully analyze the profitableness of a venture before committing funds.
  • Referring to a promising outcome or likelihood of success:

    • The early data showed great profitableness for the research project, leading to renewed grant funding.
    • We discussed the profitableness of pursuing a partnership with that company.
Advanced Usage and Notes
  • "Profitableness" is a formal and somewhat less common noun. In everyday business or financial contexts, synonyms like profitability or lucrativeness are often preferred.
  • It can be used in both concrete (financial) and abstract (promising) contexts, though the financial sense is more frequent.
  • The word often implies a calculated or assessed quality rather than a guaranteed result.
Variants and Related Words
  • Profitable (adjective): Yielding profit or financial gain; beneficial.
    • a profitable business deal
  • Profitability (noun): The degree to which a business or activity yields profit or financial gain. (Often used interchangeably with the first sense of "profitableness").
    • The company's profitability has increased this quarter.
  • Profit (noun/verb): The financial gain; to obtain a financial advantage or benefit.
    • They made a large profit. The company profited from the deal.
Synonyms
  • Profitability (for financial gain)
  • Lucrativeness
  • Advantageousness
  • Fruitfulness (for successful outcome)
  • Promising nature
Antonyms
  • Unprofitableness
  • Loss
  • Disadvantageousness
  • Futility
Idioms and Phrases

Note: There are no common idioms that use the exact word "profitableness." Related concepts are expressed through its root word "profit." - To turn a profit: To begin to make money from a business or activity. - Profit margin: The difference between the cost of producing something and the price for which it is sold.

profitableness

The company's profitableness is evident in its growing revenue.

Noun
  1. the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit
  2. the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome