payably

English

Etymology

From payable +‎ -ly.

Adverb

payably (comparative more payably, superlative most payably)

1. Of a mine etc.: so as to yield profit; profitably.
   • 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:

     In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]