profitable
They can operate more profitably by reducing their spending on advertising.
The developed world can use energy much more efficiently and profitably.
We need to decide a price at which this product could be profitably sold.
They suggested he might profitably use his time behind bars reading a book.
Are there parts of the curriculum that could profitably be revisited?

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Profits & losses
anti-profiteering
anti-speculative
be a licence to print moneyidiom
buoyancy
buoyant
cash cow
deficit
lose
lose your shirtidiom
margin
muck
non-profit-making
out-of-pocket
pi
pocket
profit from something
profit warning
rake-off
trade surplus
winnings

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Useful or advantageous

profitably | Business English

profitably
adverb
uk /ˈprɒfɪtəbli/us
COMMERCE, FINANCE
in a way that will produce a profit:
expand/grow profitablyThere is no shortage of opportunity to expand our business profitably.
The plants couldn't operate profitably after power prices rocketed.
in a way that gives an advantage or useful result:
An important rule in business is to spend your time profitably.

Examples of profitably

profitably
These findings strongly suggest that future research efforts may be profitably directed toward this heretofore underappreciated threat to children's adjustment.
I identify important possibilities, ignored in the formal models, which serve materially to reduce the profitably of the strategy to a plaintiff.
For instance, techniques developed to treat the state explosion problem in model checking might be profitably used for the qualitative analysis of dynamic systems.
In this section we ask whether the constructions at hand might be more profitably analyzed without invoking movement.
This issue can profitably be explored by reviewing some of the pertinent literature on compulsion and culpability.
This chapter can also be profitably read as a self-contained proposal, not merely as an argument in favour of semantic minimalism.
The underlying assumption is that domains establish semantic relations among word senses that can be profitably used during the disambiguation process.
All the authors know how to apply their ethnographic or discourse analysis methods profitably.
It is suggested that elements of constructivist accounts could profitably be drawn from to reduce this implausibility.
It is profitably innovative in terms of both structure and content.
Cotton was never again grown as profitably for the planters as in the period before emancipation.
But these documents can no more be profitably studied without laborious preparatory training than can the movements of the stars or the behaviour of electrons.
In sum, combining strong and weak adaptationist strategies might profitably generate evolutionary insights into human cognition.
In contrast, an observational semantics based on the algebra of concatenable concurrent histories can be used profitably at the design level.
In addition, there were economic and professional interests at stake (the concerns of theatres, actors and playwrights to be able to pursue their work profitably).
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