Synonyms:
profitable
Meaning: yielding material gain or profit; "profitable speculation on the stock market"
Usage examples
It is profitable and sometimes even praiseworthy.
There never will be a "royal road" to profitable bee-keeping.
Many of the victims of the practice were young children, for the traffic in them was highly profitable.
It is still a profitable business to sell patent purgatives, such as cider in which a little magnesia has been dissolved.
An ideal schoolmaster is not synonymous with the Headmaster of Eton or the owner of the most profitable preparatory school.
"In the discussion that followed he suggested several kinds of work which he had in his mind, and which might prove profitable.
These mines, and those which exist nearer to the large towns, will some day render New Mexico a profitable and rich field for the learned antiquary.
His tastes, I infer, lie in the direction which, in a worldly sense, are least profitable; but, after all, Harcourt, every one has brains enough, and to spare, for any career.
But very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason ... and ... and ... do you know that that, too, is profitable, sometimes even praiseworthy?
"The use of these frames will, I am persuaded, give a new impulse to the easy and profitable management of bees; and will render the making of artificial swarms an easy operation."