Definition: 1. Yielding material gain or profit. 2. Promoting benefit or gain. 3. Providing profit. 4. Productive of profit.
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Use 'profitable' in a sentence:
1. A company manager tells VOA that GM expects to lose money initially, but hopes to make the Volt profitable in future years.
2. All were highly profitable in their primes.
3. Breakfast has the potential to be very profitable, says Sara Senatore of Bernstein, a research firm, because the margins can be high.
4. Whether that strategy is more profitable is another question.
5. The Ford Motor Company refused government aid and is working to become profitable again by two thousand eleven.
6. Ecological province construction is a profitable probe and practice of regional sustainable development.
7. It's profitable to grow vegetables out of season.
8. It can be concluded that restaurant keepers need not ＂ be overly concerned about ‘ bad' tables, ＂ given that they're profitable ．
9. Selling digital copies of those books could become profitable, and there are questions over who will get those profits.
10. It wasn't just a profitable financial institution.
11. We made a big bet against Internet stocks in 1999 and 2000 that was very profitable for the University.
12. The railway has also stayed profitable since 2014.
13. All this, of course, was fuelled by I mentioned it already--a transportation revolution symbolized by the Erie Canal, finished in 1825, which remained profitable all the way out into the 1880s.
14. is relatively cheap. Dairyman Vander Haak says his energy sales have not been profitable.
15. It has sold off its less profitable kinds of cars, closed factories,cut jobs and closed sales centers.
16. America still has enough credibility to a more profitable path that would impoverish its creditors slowly.
17. The stock market is profitable.
18. International routes have become more profitable options for U.S.airlines struggling under a weakening domestic economy.
19. Integrated Service Communication Platform Constructing Profitable Next Generation Internet.
20. But adding Venice to the UNESCO endangered list — which is dominated by sites in developing and conflict-ridden countries — would be an international embarrassment, and could even hurt Italy's profitable tourism industry.
21. So, you have to feed the slave all year round to work only a small part of the time, that's not very profitable.
22. You look at what will sell and what's the most profitable venture to take on.
23. But before the pandemic, Coke and its rival PepsiCo had been pushing smaller cans and bottles, which usually carry a higher price per ounce for the consumer and are more profitable for the manufacturer.
24. Britain anyway started producing oil in the North Sea; lots of countries in Latin America started looking and finding oil, and of course, russian oil started being very, very profitable.
25. Business is slow, so when she overhears an accountant ( Damian Lewis) discussing how profitable horse-racing can be, she has the sort of idea that British comedy dramas are made of.
26. It is profitable to drill to depths more than 1,000 feet for oil and gas extraction, but only recently in California has it become profitable to pump water from this depth.
27. Especially, it provides a profitable tool for extracting rules from experience knowledge.
28. So,to the extend that you can get this technology to them, this could potentially be a very profitable business."
29. She said that she had made it possible "for many colored women to abandon the washtub for more pleasant and profitable occupations."
30. A return to profitable healthy fishing can lead people out of piracy in the central and north regions,".
31. This kind of business is quite profitable.
32. The company was no longer profitable.
33. That is because the victims are vulnerable to exploitation, laws against this practice are not vigorously enforced and it is a hugely profitable trade.
34. So is this a profitable deviation for Stacy?
35. The gentleman understands what is moral, the small man what is profitable.
36. But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops ．
37. So clearly, that's not, thank you, that's not a profitable deviation and it's also not a profitable deviation for people on the left.
38. Now a landmark lawsuit brought by the Senegalese Office for Artists' Royalties against two major Dakar media outlets could turn music-making into a profitable business.
39. Nathan Burrell says it is not a profitable business yet, but the farmers are hopeful.
40. I think that if Ford and other car companies didn't use cost-benefit analysis, they'd eventually go out of business because they wouldn't be able to be profitable and millions of people wouldn't be able to use their cars to get to jobs, to put food on the table, to feed their children.
41. Why isn't it a profitable deviation for Stacy?
42. That business became profitable last year.
43. Tina believed that, given time, her business would become profitable.
44. But "Billboard's Boxscore" also shows a few musicians still had some very profitable concert tours this year.
45. It's more profitable to grow rice than sorghum here.
46. Managing ecosystems sustainably is more profitable than exploiting them, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
47. Farmlink staff members say that while pepper requires more labor than growing rice, it is more profitable for farmers.
48. You know,I thought there was a possibly an opportunity there to try and turn a pest into something that might be profitable."
49. You move out to someplace that nobody bothered to farm before, because it wasn't profitable enough, because you need more land.
50. Because it was so damned profitable.
51. The production of coffee beans is a huge, profitable business, but, unfortunately, full-sun production is taking over the industry and bringing about a lot of damage.
52. It was profitable for them to produce large amounts of food.
53. The experiment was a grand success and Talleyrand's association with French nobility would prove a profitable connection for Car ê me.
54. Scott LaGanga,director of PhRMA, a leading pharmaceutical research and manufacturing company, says it's easy and profitable to sell look-alike,low quality drugs.
55. Nevertheless, some companies are finding it profitable to offer cattle-free alternatives and not just when it comes to food.
56. Other less profitable services are to be axed later this year.
57. Drug manufacturing is the most profitable business in America.
58. The bottom line is that it's not profitable.
59. It would take a miracle to make this business profitable.
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