Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PROFITABLE

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Definitions of PROFITABLE

1. Producing a profit.
2. Beneficial, serviceable, of use.

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Examples of Using PROFITABLE in a Sentence

• Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States and prolonged the institution.
• Before the American Revolution, Hancock was one of the wealthiest men in the Thirteen Colonies, having inherited a profitable mercantile business from his uncle.
• The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software.
• The bet forces opponents with draws to either call with insufficient pot odds, or to fold, both of which are profitable for the betting player.
• The purpose of the Department of Labor is to foster, promote, and develop the well-being of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.
• Danish colonizers in the West Indies aimed to exploit the profitable triangular trade, involving the export of firearms and other manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves, who were then transported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations.
• Highly prized as seafood, lobsters are economically important and are often one of the most profitable commodities in the coastal areas they populate.
• During the 1890s and 1900s, the company heavily invested into electric lighting, a sector that proved to be immensely profitable in the long term.
• Within the next four years he tripled the revenues, grossing $250 million, and turned the company profitable.
• As with much of the Piedmont, this area was developed in the antebellum era for cotton cultivation after short-staple cotton was made profitable by invention of the cotton gin.
• This area is considered part of the Black Belt, upland areas across the Deep South that were developed in the 19th century as plantations after invention of the cotton gin made processing of short-staple cotton profitable.
• He erected barns to shelter the horses and hogs of the Tennessee farmers who drove them to the deeper South for a more profitable market.
• Under new ownership, the railroad became profitable, not only as a freight line, but also by providing daily passenger service from Clarendon to Brinkley and on to Helena, making stops in Marvell along the way.
• By the late 1880s, Tillman was operating a profitable orange and banana grove on the north shore of the creek.
• After the Marietta and Northern Georgia Railroad (later the Louisville and Nashville Railroad) was constructed through here in 1884, the railroad stimulated a boom in the timber industry by providing a profitable way to get lumber to markets.
• The sugarcane plantation was rarely profitable, and through 1879 the church had subsidized its operations with about $40,000.
• The paternalism was profitable, even though rents were low: during 1943 the company showed a profit of $59,000 for its "townsite" services.
• Once a thriving river community where apples were loaded and shipped, banks were busy and profitable, stores were laden with goods and shoppers, Hamburg now sits quietly along and sometimes in the waters of the Mississippi.
• In the 1850s, as the numbers of Native Americans dwindled, pioneer settlers began to inhabit the area which would become Munster to grow crops and provide dairy products to the profitable markets in Chicago.
• The town of Rockport was born and from Camden it took half the population, three quarters of the land, and most importantly the profitable lime and ice industries.
• There were large poultry and dairy farms joining the profitable farming of peaches, apples, strawberries, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, cantaloupes, and watermelons.
• The Ahmeek Mine was the most successful mine along the Kearsarge Amygdaloid Lode, which spans through Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, as well as the most profitable, and the largest producer along the lode.
• the Beemster, the new land was poor quality, and in 1674 there was a proposal to refill the polder, as fishing would be more profitable.
• In the 14th and 15th centuries, Morphou hosted royal casalia, where the profitable cultivation of sugar took place with the encouragement of the kings of Cyprus.
• Murfreesboro was designated by the US Congress in 1790 as an official port of entry, and the customs records indicate a profitable three-cornered trade with New England and the West Indies.

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