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US
/ˈpɹɑfətəbɫi/
]
[ UK /pɹˈɒfɪtəbli/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒfɪtəbli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a productive way
they worked together productively for two years
How To Use profitably In A Sentence
- Several new businesses began operating during the year and are already trading profitably.
- Several days might be profitably spent by the antiquarian in investigating the contents of the different tiers of galleries; while the geologist would find matter for interesting speculation in the partial intrusion of the older lithoid tufa here and there into the softer and more recent volcanic deposits in which the passages are excavated, and in which numerous decomposing crystals of leucite may be observed. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
- They are there to fill up space profitably rather than leave it empty, they do not have any squatters' rights when an edible crop is needed. Planning the Organic Vegetable Garden
- The chief plants furnishing the drugs of commerce, and which enter largely into tropical agriculture, are the narcotic plants, especially tobacco, the poppy for opium, and the betel nut and leaf; as masticatories -- but there are very many others to which the attention of the cultivator may profitably be directed. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- When the number of slaves becomes so great that the master can not profitably employ them, he manumits them in self-defense. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
- The definition of an ore, in the strictest sense, refers only to mineralized rocks that can be profitably mined.
- Die Ziet ist unendlich lang is an admonition that can be profitably invoked upon human enterprise in general far oftener than it is, but the time for this particular enterprise is very closely limited by circumstances. The Jewish Problem in America
- But whenever I try to get help to produce bio-diesel profitably, I'm knocked back by bureaucracy.
- The clover may be pastured the following year, but in the year succeeding that, it is allowed to grow unchecked until August, when it is plowed in, the ground again guanoed, and wheat sown with herd's-grass (red-top) and clover, which is to remain, for mowing and pasture, as long as the ground will profitably sustain it. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
- Sickert may profitably be compared with Boudin, Jongkind, and Berthe Since Cézanne