profitability.

The capacity or degree to which an activity produces financial returns exceeding the relevant costs.

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Words that belong together

• long-term profitability
• profitability of a business

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Long-term profitability depended on costs that were not visible in the initial sales figures.

The business’s profitability improved even though its revenue remained nearly unchanged.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic explanation, resource analysis, incentive analysis, comparison. Disciplines: economics, business, social science. Commonness: moderately common.