profitable
adjective
prof·it·able
ˈprä-fə-tə-bəl 
ˈpräf-tə-bəl
: affording profits : yielding advantageous returns or results
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Examples of profitable in a Sentence
The movie was very profitable.
selling real estate on the side turned out to be a profitable venture for the stay-at-home mom
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The extortion process begins with cartels identifying and targeting profitable farms.
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Karol Suárez, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
Quant investing has been a powerful force in public markets for decades, but systematic players typically haven’t touched private assets because a lack of publicly available data hindered analysts’ hunt for profitable patterns and dislocations.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024
Last year, the company hit upward of $120 million in profitable gross revenue, while on track to break $200 million for the fiscal year.
—Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 1 July 2024
At first, white southerners grew peaches mostly for making brandy or feeding hogs, but by the time of the Civil War, some found a profitable business shipping fresh fruit to the northeast by steamship or railroad.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2024
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Karol Suárez, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
Quant investing has been a powerful force in public markets for decades, but systematic players typically haven’t touched private assets because a lack of publicly available data hindered analysts’ hunt for profitable patterns and dislocations.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024
Last year, the company hit upward of $120 million in profitable gross revenue, while on track to break $200 million for the fiscal year.
—Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 1 July 2024
At first, white southerners grew peaches mostly for making brandy or feeding hogs, but by the time of the Civil War, some found a profitable business shipping fresh fruit to the northeast by steamship or railroad.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2024
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profitable
adjective
prof·it·able
ˈprä-fə-tə-bəl
: affording profits : yielding advantageous returns or results
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