Profitable
adjective
Making a lot of money.
His business turned out to be very profitable.
Often appears as...
- profitable business
- profitable investment
adjective
Providing a benefit or advantage.
Studying hard can be profitable for future job opportunities.
Often appears as...
- profitable experience
- profitable skills
adjective
Making a lot of money.
His business turned out to be very profitable.
Often appears as...
- profitable business
- profitable investment
adjective
Providing a benefit or advantage.
Studying hard can be profitable for future job opportunities.
Often appears as...
- profitable experience
- profitable skills
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Often used to describe businesses or investments that generate significant financial returns or income.
This year, the tech sector proved to be quite profitable.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Success
Emphasizes the achievement of financial gain, suggesting that the endeavor was worth the effort or investment.
Her homemade jewelry business became increasingly profitable.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Outcome
Can imply that the gains made were superior to other options or expectations.
His investment in renewable energy was more profitable than stocks.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Often used to describe businesses or investments that generate significant financial returns or income.
This year, the tech sector proved to be quite profitable.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Success
Emphasizes the achievement of financial gain, suggesting that the endeavor was worth the effort or investment.
Her homemade jewelry business became increasingly profitable.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Outcome
Can imply that the gains made were superior to other options or expectations.
His investment in renewable energy was more profitable than stocks.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Often used to describe businesses or investments that generate significant financial returns or income.
This year, the tech sector proved to be quite profitable.
Pro Tip 2/3Financial Success
Emphasizes the achievement of financial gain, suggesting that the endeavor was worth the effort or investment.
Her homemade jewelry business became increasingly profitable.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Outcome
Can imply that the gains made were superior to other options or expectations.
His investment in renewable energy was more profitable than stocks.
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How does the stock...
where any company or individual who believes the business could be profitable might buy a stock. Buying stocks makes those investors partial owners in the business. Their investment helps the company to grow, and as it becomes more successful, more buyers may see potential and start buying stocks.
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Will the ocean ever run...
that the fin has become the most profitable part of the shark. This leads many fishermen to fill their boats with fins leaving millions of dead sharks behind. The problems aren't unique to toothfish and sharks. Almost 31% of the world's fish populations are overfished,
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Elon Musk: A future...
that can't profitably be made now but could be made in that world, courtesy of legions of robots. Yeah. It will be a world of abundance. The only scarcity that will exist in the future is that which we decide to create ourselves as humans.
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Why good ideas get...
their funding dries up before they can become profitable. One of the fields where this problem is most pressing today is zero-carbon technologies. They’re essential to our future because they will help us eliminate greenhouse gas emissions
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Yuval Noah Harari...
let's say for britain and its colonies is that you grow cotton in egypt you send the raw cotton from egypt to britain they're the really important and and profitable business of producing textiles this was the high tech of the
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How can we solve the...
can help prevent disease in the first place. The biggest challenge to all these approaches is funding, which is woefully inadequate across the globe. Antibiotics are so unprofitable that many large pharmaceutical companies
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The Border Between Crocs...
not so much as a killer, but a profitable commodity. Take these eggs. These were laid by the crocs at the park. Grahame and his team have taken them to sell to commercial farmers to raise for slaughter. What's their fate?
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Creating job creators PIPE...
are able to develop entrepreneurs who solve problems or meet needs using profitable business models who create wealth or create shared prosperity and will create a better society and a better world thank you
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Peter van Uhm: Why I...
tips the balance even further. Abstaining from violence becomes more profitable than starting a war. Now nonviolence starts to work like a flywheel. It enhances peace even further.
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Albatrosses Swallow...
this to them and it's just horrid it's horrifying throw away living may be profitable but the consequences are intolerable it's
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How does the stock...
where any company or individual who believes the business could be profitable might buy a stock. Buying stocks makes those investors partial owners in the business. Their investment helps the company to grow, and as it becomes more successful, more buyers may see potential and start buying stocks.
Video examples
Will the ocean ever run...
that the fin has become the most profitable part of the shark. This leads many fishermen to fill their boats with fins leaving millions of dead sharks behind. The problems aren't unique to toothfish and sharks. Almost 31% of the world's fish populations are overfished,
Video examples
Elon Musk: A future...
that can't profitably be made now but could be made in that world, courtesy of legions of robots. Yeah. It will be a world of abundance. The only scarcity that will exist in the future is that which we decide to create ourselves as humans.
Video examples
Why good ideas get...
their funding dries up before they can become profitable. One of the fields where this problem is most pressing today is zero-carbon technologies. They’re essential to our future because they will help us eliminate greenhouse gas emissions
Video examples
Yuval Noah Harari...
let's say for britain and its colonies is that you grow cotton in egypt you send the raw cotton from egypt to britain they're the really important and and profitable business of producing textiles this was the high tech of the
Video examples
How can we solve the...
can help prevent disease in the first place. The biggest challenge to all these approaches is funding, which is woefully inadequate across the globe. Antibiotics are so unprofitable that many large pharmaceutical companies
Video examples
The Border Between Crocs...
not so much as a killer, but a profitable commodity. Take these eggs. These were laid by the crocs at the park. Grahame and his team have taken them to sell to commercial farmers to raise for slaughter. What's their fate?
Video examples
Creating job creators PIPE...
are able to develop entrepreneurs who solve problems or meet needs using profitable business models who create wealth or create shared prosperity and will create a better society and a better world thank you
Video examples
Peter van Uhm: Why I...
tips the balance even further. Abstaining from violence becomes more profitable than starting a war. Now nonviolence starts to work like a flywheel. It enhances peace even further.
Video examples
Albatrosses Swallow...
this to them and it's just horrid it's horrifying throw away living may be profitable but the consequences are intolerable it's
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Roger Waters
British Musician
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.
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Ilana Kloss
In trying to mentor and hire, I always encourage people to learn how to sell. We work hard to be profitable; you can do good and do well. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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Esther Dyson
American Businesswoman
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
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Hozier
Irish Musician
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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Jackie Mason
American Comedian
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Trey Parker
American Artist
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
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Aeschylus
Greek Poet
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Polish Poet
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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Roger Waters
British Musician
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.
Quote examples
Ilana Kloss
In trying to mentor and hire, I always encourage people to learn how to sell. We work hard to be profitable; you can do good and do well. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Quote examples
Esther Dyson
American Businesswoman
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
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Hozier
Irish Musician
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
Quote examples
Jackie Mason
American Comedian
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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Joseph Conrad
Polish Novelist
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Trey Parker
American Artist
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
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Aeschylus
Greek Poet
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Quote examples
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Polish Poet
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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