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What is the adjective for profits?

What's the adjective for profits? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs profit and profiteer which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

profitmaking
  1. That makes a profit; profitable.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By the time the War of 1812 cut off the shipment of nailrod, the nailery had ceased to be a profitmaking operation.”
      “There are some good reasons for multilateral organizations and governments not to subsidize the private sector in profitmaking work in forests.”
      “It is nevertheless important to clarify what is meant by independence here, and whether these agencies should be profitmaking or not.”
proficuous
  1. Useful or profitable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Today, it has found a more proficuous application in expanding cable program capacity.”
      “The concept of SRL represents a proficuous tool to unveil emergent properties, which consider both the TRL of individual elements and how they are integrated into a complex system.”
profitable
  1. Producing a profit.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Another fact is that currency exchange is a profitable business because there is demand.”
      “In this case, cultural solutions are more valuable and profitable than technological solutions.”
      “Many local grain marketing and farm supply cooperatives are not consistently profitable.”
profitsome
  1. (informal, regional) Characterised or marked by profit
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Due to their efficient cost-cutting strategies, the company managed to turn their struggling business into a profitsome venture.”
profitseeking
  1. Aiming to make a profit.
profitless
  1. not yielding profit
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “By playing his part in tonight's charade, he had already committed himself to what he expected to be a profitless endeavor.”
      “The price squeeze made it doubly difficult for a profitless business to maintain its productive facilities.”
      “They're never going to be anything more than a profitless, subsidised, medieval craft collective.”
profitablest
  1. superlative form of profitable: most profitable
profited
profiting
profiteered
profiteering
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