{
    "term": "profitable",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "that makes or is likely to make money",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a highly profitable business"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a profitable investment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is usually more profitable to sell direct to the public."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The business is not really profitable enough."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What can be done to keep the business profitable?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "confident that the venture will prove profitable"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "prove"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "that gives somebody an advantage or a useful result",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a profitable experience"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spent a profitable afternoon in the library."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was, generally, a profitable meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some churches have found it profitable to hold services during the week."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "rewarding",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "find something"],
                "adverb": ["very", "mutually", "potentially"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈprɒfɪtəbl/",
                "audio": "pr/profitable/profitable__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈprɑːfɪtəbl/",
                "audio": "pr/profitable/profitable__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, from the verb profiter, from Latin profectus ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’, from pro- ‘on behalf of’ + facere ‘do’."
}