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Grammar : Adv
Spell : prof-i-tuh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɒf ɪ tə bəl

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Définition of profitably

Origin :
  • c.1300, "yielding benefit, useful," from profit (v.) + -able or from Old French profitable, porfitable. Specific sense of "money-making" is attested from 1758. Related: Profitably.
  • adv lucratively
Example sentences :
  • This indicated to her with what grain she could sow the field most profitably.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
  • I am now a lieutenant in the navy, and am supposed to employ each hour profitably.
  • Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • But farmers cannot profitably be considered as a single class.
  • Extract from : « Socialism As It Is » by William English Walling
  • Well, there are three things, I think, that we may profitably do.
  • Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
  • We sent him to a mountain university and have used him profitably all these years.
  • Extract from : « Adaptation » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
  • To profitably employ our time we set to work to fish for our supper.
  • Extract from : « A Pirate of Parts » by Richard Neville
  • How pleasantly and profitably for the traveller this can be done.
  • Extract from : « Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry » by Thomas Davis
  • It is a question of living together peaceably and profitably.
  • Extract from : « Society » by Henry Kalloch Rowe
  • We can profitably note the tendency of scientific thought in this direction.
  • Extract from : « The Prehistoric World » by E. A. Allen
  • He has stature without apology, if the years have been profitably spent.
  • Extract from : « The Great Gray Plague » by Raymond F. Jones

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