Definition of Profitableness

1. Noun. The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome.


2. Noun. The quality of affording gain or benefit or profit.
Exact synonyms: Gainfulness, Lucrativeness, Profitability
Generic synonyms: Gain, Profit
Derivative terms: Profitable, Profitable
Antonyms: Unprofitability, Unprofitableness

Definition of Profitableness

1. Noun. The quality of being profitable; gainfulness; usefulness; advantageousness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Profitableness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Profitableness

profit-taking
profit and loss
profit and loss account
profit margin
profit margins
profit monger
profit sharing
profit taker
profit taking
profit takings
profit warning
profit warnings
profitabilities
profitability
profitable
profitableness (current term)
profitablest
profitably
profited
profiteer
profiteered
profiteering
profiteers
profiter
profiterole
profiteroles
profiters
profitest
profiteth
profiting

Literary usage of Profitableness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... in its nature, arbitrary; that it is not necessarily graduated by the value of the property invested in the business licensed, or its profitableness. ..."

2. Zimmermann on Ocean Shipping by Erich Walter Zimmermann (1921)
"Fuel cost and other expense items affect profitableness of route. ... But profitableness depends on net income, that is, gross earnings minus operating ..."

3. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1914)
"... the author hoped to arrive at a satisfactory conclusión as to the profitableness of slave labor in the State. The results have been disappointing ..."

4. Report in Regard to the Range and Ranch Cattle Business of the United States by Joseph Nimmo (1885)
"profitableness OF THE RANGE CATTLE BUSINESS. The range cattle business of the western and northwestern portions of the great cattle area of course differs ..."

5. Commercial Paper, Acceptances and the Analysis of Credit Statements: A by William Henry Kniffin (1920)
"The profitableness of this method will readily be seen by a single illustration. THE profitableness or CASH PAYMENTS Let us suppose a merchant has such good ..."

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