lucrative
/ˈlu.kɹə.tɪv/ adjective B2- Producing a surplus; profitable.
- Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
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Even when you knew me first, at the time of the affair which you have commemorated in ‘A Study in Scarlet,’ I had already established a considerable, though not a very lucrative, connection.
It would be long indeed ere you would find so lucrative a post as that you have now the good fortune to fill.
Contemporary publishing stalwarts dismissed his audacious concept as an unviable folly, convinced that cheap paperbacks would cannibalize their lucrative hardcover sales.
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