profitable

Producing a profit.

Adjective

Producing a profit.
- Profitable operation is being made possible by the widespread introduction of capacious diesel railcars, which for their comfort and speed are very popular with the travelling public. - 1953 April, “Reviving U.S.A....
- 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...
- California state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson told The Wall Street Journal last month when the legislation passed that “one-fourth of California’s publicly traded companies still do not have a single woman on their board,...
Beneficial, serviceable, of use.
- 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 - c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
- Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. - 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History,...
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. - 1953, Richmond Lattimore, Aeschylus, “Prometheus Bound”, in Greek Tragedies:

From Old French profitable, equivalent to profit + -able.