Hypertext Webster Gateway: "profitableness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Profitable \Prof"it*a*ble\, a. [F. profitable.]
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative;
useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable
trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.
What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to
the emperor. --Arbuthnot.
-- {Prof"it*a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Prof"it*a*bly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
profitableness
n : the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit [syn: {profitability}]
[ant: {unprofitableness}, {unprofitableness}]
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