# profitable

Pronunciation: US say "PRAH-fi-tuh-buhl" /ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.tə.bl̩/; UK say "PRO-fi-tuh-buhl" /ˈpɹɒf.ɪ.tə.bl̩/

## Adjective

1. Earning a profit; bringing in more money than is spent to produce or operate something.
   - Simple: Bringing in more money than it costs to run.
   - _After cutting costs, the factory finally turned profitable last quarter._
   - _Exporting wine proved far more profitable than selling it locally._
2. Beneficial or useful; bringing some advantage or worthwhile result.
   - Simple: Useful and helpful in some way.
   - _The afternoon spent reviewing old notes turned out to be highly profitable._
   - _She considered the apprenticeship a profitable use of her summer._

## Origin

From Old French profitable, equivalent to profit plus the suffix -able.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/profitable (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).