profitable

«profitable» in Mova's school dictionary: Bringing in money or some good; helpful and worth doing — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Bringing in money or some good; helpful and worth doing. tree →

sense in the lessons

in the lessons, a business or task that brings gain; in stories, a useful job or a useful sheep

examples

• Selling cakes at the fair was profitable. tree →
• It is profitable to keep bees for honey. tree →
• The messenger hoped for a profitable office. tree →

note

profit is the money left after costs are taken away, so a profitable deal is found by taking costs (-) from money earned; the word itself gives no number.

In the corpora

• Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
• Can a man be profitable unto God?
• Or can he that is wise be profitable unto Him?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «profitable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.