Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Charges will be brought in, debts written off, staff laid off, all to make the system profitable for big business.

Modifies a noun

• niche: Online Gold Finder Online Gold Finder will help you find hidden profitable online niches in seconds.

• sideline: It transpires that his Father, who works for a removals company, has made a profitable sideline tipping off the burglars.

• growth: We have 10 years of profitable growth behind us.

• trader: Profitable stock traders have a better way. + $ Stock trading is not a job.

• venture: Sufficient demand for the Internet exists even in the poorest countries to make it a viable, indeed a highly profitable, venture.

• enterprise: For the bookmakers, who negotiated that position, that is a profitable enterprise.

Modifying Another Word

• amazingly: I soon realized that being able to help business owners to get results from these optimization methods and strategies could also be amazingly profitable.

• hugely: I think the Queen herself is probably hugely profitable.

• highly: The Net gives you access to a highly profitable market.

• marginally: We have heard several anecdotal stories that marginally profitable attractions are closing at the end of the 1998 season.

• immensely: It turned to opium for a solution, which proved to be immensely profitable.

• commercially: It is essential to make news websites commercially profitable, a question of complement not compromise.

Infinitive complement

• sell: Is it profitable to sell data on to others?

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Secret Of Success - this premium rate telephone service has proved fantastically profitable for one important reason.

• remain: The report highlights some interesting trends which the design industry needs to address to remain profitable.

• become: A business plan is being drawn up, in which the magazine aims to become profitable in year three.

• stay: It would defeat Royal Mail's efforts to stay profitable.

Preposition: for

• teaching: That is indeed what Scripture says of itself: " All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching " ( 2 Tim.

• farmer: Growing opium poppies is extremely profitable for poverty-stricken Afghan farmers.