PROFITABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profitably mean? 

• PROFITABLY (adverb)
  The adverb PROFITABLY has 1 sense:

1. in a productive way

  Familiarity information: PROFITABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFITABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a productive way

Synonyms:

fruitfully; productively; profitably

Context example:

they worked together productively for two years

Antonym:

unprofitably (in an unproductive manner)

 Context examples 

I think that I have seen all that I wish in this house, and that my time may be more profitably employed elsewhere. Au revoir and good luck!

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Come, Watson, I fancy that we may employ ourselves more profitably at home.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Da Fontano the promoter came there, and Ed Legros and James B. (Rot-Gut) Ferret and the De Jongs and Ernest Lilly—they came to gamble and when Ferret wandered into the garden it meant he was cleaned out and Associated Traction would have to fluctuate profitably next day.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)