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The quality of affording gain or benefit or profit
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profitability
Word definitions for profitability in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality or state of being profitable. 2 The capacity to make a profit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from profitable + -ity .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit [syn: profitableness ] [ant: unprofitableness , unprofitableness ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE high ▪ In most cases, the project with the highest profitability index would be selected. low ▪ Main reasons seem to be persistent low profitability among farmers and their uncertainty about the future. ▪ It is ...
Usage examples of profitability.
Black slaves were easier to control, and their profitability for southern plantations was bringing an enormous increase in the importation of slaves, who were becoming a majority in some colonies and constitued one-fifdi of the entire colonial population.
That I saw them having the opportunity to participate in many of the decisions that would determine the profitability of that business.
As you may know, shrinkage, or unaccounted-for inventory losstheft, in other words is one of the biggest enemies of profitability in the retail business.
So in 1980, we decided the best way to control the problem was to share with the associates any profitability the company gained by reducing it.
CyberNet, a multimedia highway for trading and instantaneous communication throughout Southeast Asia, had the potential to lift Sato International out of its recessionary spiral and return it to profitability.
Representatives of the Big Four gangs met twice in 1986 once on the West Coast, once in the Chicago area to discuss ways to improve relations between the clubs and tone down the violence that hinders their profitability.
Black slaves were easier to control, and their profitability for southern plantations was bringing an enormous increase in the importation of slaves, who were becoming a majority in some colonies and constitued one-fifdi of the entire colonial population.
Online advertising was supposed to amortize start-up and operational costs and lead to profitability even as it subsidized free access to costly content.
These statistics indicated a positive correlation between an area's population density and the number of Castles operating there and their net profitability.
A certainty that USB would act decisively to improve its lagging return on assets, and thus profitability, be it through cost cutting or more aggressive trading.
Quote: 'Doubts were expressed as to the profitability of the venture,' end quote.
In the West, the basic criterion for filtering out certain technical innovations and applying others remains economic profitability.
Publishers, becoming aware of this, and seeing no reason to allow profitability to go glimmering, then proceed to put pressure on the writer, who is often far less enthusiastic about his series than anyone else is--and, in the end, he must write.
Because the individual companies within each keiretsu are totally financed by the bank, they can concentrate on market penetration, developing the best possible product, and not on shareholders' demands for short-term profitability.