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    profitable


    1. the methods you have ever tried, but it is the most profitable method


    2. Besides, when you are poor -that is away from powerful networks- you lack knowledge for a truly profitable enterprise


    3. the ones that I went through and that had profitable


    4. log reviews are one of the most profitable ways to


    5. He wished her a profitable time investigating Tdeshi at the clinic, and warned her to be careful


    6. Jorma knew it might be profitable to stay here awhile, but he dreaded the thought of trying to pilot the boat back after dark


    7. ' He looked up and told Harry plainly that it would be more profitable if the news included some indications of what might be of practical use to the citizenry


    8. It would be more than just a joy to have her with him, it would be extremely profitable because he could ask her about every living thing they encountered


    9. “What?” Their distant profitable relationship had been stable and increasing over the last decade


    10. Illegal oil was turning out to be as profitable as aircraft parts

    11. Its rapid accumulation in so profitable an employment enables the planter to increase the number of his hands faster than he can find them in a new settlement


    12. Part of what had before been employed in other trades, is necessarily withdrawn from them, and turned into some of the new and more profitable ones


    13. He wanted to play her importance down as much as possible, but in the long run that wouldn't be profitable


    14. places more profitable than the greater part of common trades


    15. likewise the most profitable, is the infallible road to bankruptcy


    16. into every trade, when he foresees that it is likely to lie more than commonly profitable, and


    17. profitable employment than that other of writing for a bookseller, to which the art of printing


    18. To feed well, old Cato said, as we are told by Cicero, was the first and most profitable thing in the management of a private estate ; to feed tolerably well, the second ; and to feed ill, the third


    19. In France, the anxiety of the proprietors of the old vineyards to prevent the planting of any new ones, seems to favour their opinion, and to indicate a consciousness in those who must have the experience, that this species of cultivation is at present in that country more profitable than any other


    20. In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is preferred, as most profitable, to that of corn

    21. In Carolina, where the planters, as in other British colonies, are generally both farmers and landlords, and where rent, consequently, is confounded with profit, the cultivation of rice is found to be more profitable than that of corn, though their fields produce only one crop in the year, and though, from the prevalence of the customs of Europe, rice is not there the common and favourite vegetable food of the people


    22. Fizzicist thought it could be marketed as a profitable venture whereas Sam went off to his first lesson


    23. It consists in those useful plants and animals, which, in uncultivated countries, nature produces with such profuse abundance, that they are of little or no value, and which, as cultivation advances, are therefore forced to give place to some more profitable produce


    24. Their real value, therefore, the real quantity of labour which they will purchase or command, gradually rises, till at last it gets so high as to render them as profitable a produce as any thing else which human industry can raise upon the most fertile and best cultivated land


    25. When the price of cattle, for example, rises so high, that it is as profitable to cultivate land in order to raise food for them as in order to raise food for man, it cannot well go higher


    26. The price of butcher's meat, therefore, and, consequently, of cattle, must gradually rise, till it gets so high, that it becomes as profitable to employ the most fertile and best cultivated lands in raising food for them as in raising corn


    27. Had the Scotch cattle been always confined to the market of Scotland, in a country in which the quantity of land, which can be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of cattle, is so great in proportion to what can be applied to other purposes, it is scarce possible, perhaps, that their price could ever have risen so high as to render it profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them


    28. It must be a long time after the first establishment of such colonies, before it can become profitable to feed cattle upon the produce of cultivated land


    29. Though it is late, therefore, in the progress of improvement, before cattle can bring such a price as to render it profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them; yet of all the different parts which compose this second sort of rude produce, they are perhaps the first which bring this price ; because, till they bring it, it seems impossible that improvement can be brought near even to that degree of perfection to which it has arrived in many parts of Europe


    30. Varro and Columella assure us, that it was a most profitable article

    31. As wealth and luxury increase, therefore, in consequence of improvement and cultivation, the price of poultry gradually rises above that of butcher's meat, till at last it gets so high, that it becomes profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them


    32. In several provinces of France, the feeding of poultry is considered as a very important article in rural economy, and sufficiently profitable to encourage the farmer to raise a considerable quantity of Indian corn and buckwheat for this purpose


    33. Secondly, of all those profitable buildings which are the means of procuring a revenue, not only to the proprietor who lets them for a rent, but to the person who possesses them, and pays that rent for them; such as shops, warehouses, work-houses, farm-houses, with all their necessary buildings, stables, granaries, etc


    34. An improved farm is equally advantageous and more durable than any of those machines, frequently requiring no other repairs than the most profitable application of the farmer's capital employed in cultivating it


    35. profitable, according with its position


    36. It will, therefore, be sent abroad, in order to seek that profitable employment which it cannot find at home


    37. implicated in this activity, moreover, profitable


    38. But as that coin will not be allowed to lie idle, it must, in one shape or another, be sent abroad, in order to find that profitable employment which it cannot find at home; and this continual exportation of gold and silver, by enhancing the difficulty, must necessarily enhance still farther the expense of the bank, in finding new gold and silver in order to replenish those coffers, which empty themselves so very rapidly


    39. The question was, which faction should he support? Was it more profitable to stick with Stenarch, or throw his weight behind Theoton? It didn’t take Aetes long to decide


    40. is, it’s easier, more fun and more profitable than you think

    41. But though this operation had proved not only practicable, but profitable to the bank, as a mercantile company; yet the country could have derived no benefit front it, but, on the contrary, must have suffered a very


    42. The sober and frugal debtors of private persons, on the contrary, would be more likely to employ the money borrowed in sober undertakings which were proportioned to their capitals, and which, though they might have less of the grand and the marvellous, would have more of the solid and the profitable ; which would repay with a large profit whatever had been laid out upon them, and which would thus afford a fund capable of maintaining a much greater quantity of labour than that which had been employed about them


    43. The success of this operation, therefore, without increasing in the smallest degree the capital of the country, would only have transferred a great part of it from prudent and profitable to imprudent and unprofitable undertakings


    44. profitable, but useful for the locality, where


    45. If you research and uncover a profitable niche that you know nothing


    46. The only people to whom stock is commonly lent, without their being expected to make any very profitable use of it, are country gentlemen, who borrow upon mortgage


    47. It becomes gradually more and more difficult to find within the country a profitable method of employing any new capital


    48. A great part of the capital of the country would thus be kept out of the hands which were most likely to make a profitable and advantageous use of it, and thrown into those which were most likely to waste and destroy it


    49. production of the plants most profitable to man


    50. In countries, therefore, where agriculture is the most profitable of all employments, and farming and improving the most direct roads to a splendid fortune, the capitals of individuals will naturally be employed in the manner most advantageous to the whole society














































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    Synonyms for "profitable"

    profitable beneficial good propitious auspicious favourable serviceable

    "profitable" definitions

    yielding material gain or profit