PROFITABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profitability mean? 

• PROFITABILITY (noun)
  The noun PROFITABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit

  Familiarity information: PROFITABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFITABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of affording gain or benefit or profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gainfulness; lucrativeness; profitability; profitableness

Hypernyms ("profitability" is a kind of...):

gain; profit (the advantageous quality of being beneficial)

Antonym:

unprofitability (the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit)

Derivation:

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)