profitable
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Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɒf.ɪ.tə.bl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.tə.bl̩/
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- Hyphenation: prof‧it‧a‧ble
Adjective edit
profitable (comparative more profitable, superlative most profitable)
- Producing a profit.
- 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing" […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
- Beneficial, serviceable, of use.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
- I wylbe ferme and ſtabyll
And to yow ſeruyceabyll
And also prophytabyll
Yf ye be agreabyll
My propyr Beſſe
To turne a gayne to me
- 1953, Richmond Lattimore, Aeschylus, “Prometheus Bound”, in Greek Tragedies:
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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producing profit
French edit
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Adjective edit
profitable (plural profitables)
Further reading edit
- “profitable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
profitable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular profitable)
Descendants edit
- → English: profitable
- French: profitable