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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Tapping O’Neill to replace company veteran Murray Auchincloss will aid BP’s efforts to “become a simpler, leaner, and more profitable company,” Chairman Albert Manifold said Wednesday night.

From The Wall Street Journal

Baroness Batters' review called for a "new deal for profitable farming" that would recognise the true cost of producing food and delivering for the environment.

From BBC

He said the first woman to ever lead BP gives the oil major “an opportunity to accelerate our strategic vision to become a simpler, leaner, and more profitable company/”

From MarketWatch

“This transaction is part of BNP Paribas’ strategy to develop its profitable platforms in growth markets and to enhance the group’s profitability profile through targeted growth levers,” the French company said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The board said the leadership transition will allow for a simpler, leaner and more profitable company.

From The Wall Street Journal

profitable

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