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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It will take 18 to 24 months, the company figures, to find new customers and get enough production to be profitable again.

From The Wall Street Journal

They’re also worried that its move of building data centers for major customers such as OpenAI will result in a fundamentally less profitable business model.

From MarketWatch

“The Board and management team are focused on building a more efficient, profitable business while investing with discipline in our long-term road map,” Lynton said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Without one, it could take three years for International Coconut Corp. to become profitable again.

From The Wall Street Journal

Poolman says the goal is to have "more than 100 worldwide", however, he will not be drawn on whether the facilities are yet profitable.

From BBC

profitable

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