Definition of "profitable" []

• Yielding profit; advantageous or lucrative. See Synonyms at beneficial. (adjective)

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• "Eventually, talking about specifics, what we call profitable growth."
• "They'll own her work and just license it to another company but they don't see how they can make a new label profitable, so have scrapped the idea."
• "He also said GM decided to cancel plans to sell the ACDelco parts business, which he called a profitable arm of the company worth growing."