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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
profitability
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 this which leads to low levels of profitability and to a lack of incentive to undertake new investment.
overall
▪ This table also confirms the seeming decline in overall profitability during the 1980s and particularly in 1986.
▪ Indeed, the investment of the premiums from their general insurance business has made significant contributions to their overall profitability.
▪ The performance of each department or activity can thus be judged as well as the overall profitability of the product.
■ VERB
improve
▪ These cost reductions are improving our margins and profitability.
▪ He wants to double turnover and significantly improve profitability to more than five percent return on sales.
▪ It can not be bargained away to improve profitability.
▪ Profits, people and teamwork Higher productivity is a crucial component of our drive to improve profitability.
increase
▪ Provided the manufacturer can claw back the benefits, this will increase its profitability.
▪ One must also be able to identify which firms offer the best prospects for increasing productivity, profitability, and expansion.
▪ He said that Riddle's business was a sound concern with a steadily rising turnover and increasing profitability.
▪ Driver-only buses have become the norm, and may have increased privatised profitability, but they've decreased traffic flow.
maintain
▪ When prices fall, commodity producers can maintain profitability by cutting costs or increasing output.
▪ How key is the vendor to maintaining the profitability of the business?
▪ Consider advising the client that it is in his interest to maintain profitability through any warranty period.
reduce
▪ The ratings agency cited the increased business risk profile of the company, which has reduced profitability.
▪ Those ill thought out policies would add massively to the burden on employers and reduce profitability and employment.
▪ Countries with lower inflation rates resisted revaluation as this would reduce export profitability.
▪ Such wage increases tended to reduce profitability.
▪ If price cuts have to be paid to all buyers this reduces their profitability as well as increasing their detectability.
▪ This is a cost borne by businesses and consumers which dampens enterprise and reduces profitability.
return
▪ It hopes these measures will return it to profitability by the second quarter of 1993.
▪ Subsequently, the company agreed to independent auditing and has returned to profitability.
▪ Half-yearly results which are due to be published next week are expected to see the yard return to profitability.
▪ Payment will only be resumed once the group returns to greater profitability and cuts its bank borrowing significantly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They plan to increase profitability by making the factory more efficient.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assumptions about the rate of payment by debtors may have a significant bearing on the expected profitability of the project.
▪ Bookbinding and library bookselling also made favourable contributions to profitability.
▪ Examples of typical financial ratios are as follows: The above are tests of profitability.
▪ Like all other endeavors so far attempted in space, the limiting factor on profitability of space resource use is transportation cost.
▪ So the level of investment depends on expectations about future profitability.
▪ Subsequently, the company agreed to independent auditing and has returned to profitability.
▪ That consulting group came to realize earlier than others how important market share was to corporate profitability.
▪ The objectives of a marketing department are directed towards the attainment of corporate aims, such as profitability growth and social responsibility.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
profitability

mid-14c., from profitable + -ity.

Wiktionary
profitability

n. 1 The quality or state of being profitable. 2 The capacity to make a profit.

WordNet
profitability

n. the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit [syn: profitableness] [ant: unprofitableness, unprofitableness]

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.