profitable Definition
prof·it·able (präf′it ə bəl)
adjective
yielding profit, gain, or benefit
profitable Related Forms
profitable Synonyms
profitable
modif.
Antonyms
profitable Usage Examples
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
Browse dictionary entries near profitable
- ‹ profit taking
- ‹ profit-sharing plan
- ‹ profit sharing
- ‹ profit margin
- ‹ profit forecast
- ‹ profit center
- ‹ profit and loss statement
- ‹ profit and loss
- ‹ profit à prendre
- ‹ profit
- profitably ›
- profiteer ›
- profiterole ›
- profitless ›
- profligate ›
- profluent ›
- profound ›
- profoundly ›
- Profumo,John Dennis ›
- profundity ›

