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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This led to a halt of the company’s testing and, eventually, Uber ended its in-house efforts as it focused on becoming profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many automakers seized on the EV downturn to prioritize more profitable gas models.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even if there were a predictable stocks-oil correlation, it would still be nearly impossible to translate it into a profitable strategy.

From MarketWatch

In these situations, providers are stuck with an asset that is difficult to make profitable unless they increase the cost of parking, says Tooze of the BPA.

From BBC

One of its most profitable investments was in the management company of the private credit firm Blue Owl, which it exited several years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

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