profitable

[prof-i-tuh-buhl] / ˈprɒf ɪ tə bəl /

ADJECTIVE

advantageous; money-making

Synonyms

STRONGEST

beneficial commercial cost-effective effective fruitful good lucrative practical productive rewarding successful useful valuable worthwhile

WEAK

assisting conducive contributive effectual favorable gainful going in the black instrumental paid off paying paying well pragmatic remunerative self-sustaining serviceable sustaining sweet well-paying

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fruitless impotent incapable unfruitful unhelpful unproductive unprofitable unskilled useless valueless worthless

WEAK

disadvantageous

Example Sentences

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Basically, the company is selling more of its higher-margin, presumably higher-priced products and seeing double-digit growth within its Services business, which includes things like the App Store that are generally more profitable than hardware.

From MarketWatch

Tesla, which was once one of the world's most profitable car companies, has also been pushing deeper into robotaxis.

From BBC

The reductions represent about 1% of Nike’s overall workforce and are part of a broader turnaround effort to help it return to long-term, profitable growth, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Controlled demand-led inflation is typically viewed as a sign that an economy is growing strongly and businesses are profitable, supporting wage growth and consumer spending.

From The Wall Street Journal

profitable

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