noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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In most cases, the project with the highest profitability index would be selected.
low
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Main reasons seem to be persistent low profitability among farmers and their uncertainty about the future.
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It is this which leads to low levels of profitability and to a lack of incentive to undertake new investment.
overall
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This table also confirms the seeming decline in overall profitability during the 1980s and particularly in 1986.
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Indeed, the investment of the premiums from their general insurance business has made significant contributions to their overall profitability .
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The performance of each department or activity can thus be judged as well as the overall profitability of the product.
■ VERB
improve
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These cost reductions are improving our margins and profitability .
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He wants to double turnover and significantly improve profitability to more than five percent return on sales.
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It can not be bargained away to improve profitability .
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Profits, people and teamwork Higher productivity is a crucial component of our drive to improve profitability .
increase
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Provided the manufacturer can claw back the benefits, this will increase its profitability .
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One must also be able to identify which firms offer the best prospects for increasing productivity, profitability , and expansion.
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He said that Riddle's business was a sound concern with a steadily rising turnover and increasing profitability .
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Driver-only buses have become the norm, and may have increased privatised profitability , but they've decreased traffic flow.
maintain
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When prices fall, commodity producers can maintain profitability by cutting costs or increasing output.
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How key is the vendor to maintaining the profitability of the business?
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Consider advising the client that it is in his interest to maintain profitability through any warranty period.
reduce
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The ratings agency cited the increased business risk profile of the company, which has reduced profitability .
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Those ill thought out policies would add massively to the burden on employers and reduce profitability and employment.
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Countries with lower inflation rates resisted revaluation as this would reduce export profitability .
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Such wage increases tended to reduce profitability .
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If price cuts have to be paid to all buyers this reduces their profitability as well as increasing their detectability.
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This is a cost borne by businesses and consumers which dampens enterprise and reduces profitability .
return
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It hopes these measures will return it to profitability by the second quarter of 1993.
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Subsequently, the company agreed to independent auditing and has returned to profitability .
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Half-yearly results which are due to be published next week are expected to see the yard return to profitability .
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Payment will only be resumed once the group returns to greater profitability and cuts its bank borrowing significantly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They plan to increase profitability by making the factory more efficient.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Assumptions about the rate of payment by debtors may have a significant bearing on the expected profitability of the project.
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Bookbinding and library bookselling also made favourable contributions to profitability .
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Examples of typical financial ratios are as follows: The above are tests of profitability .
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Like all other endeavors so far attempted in space, the limiting factor on profitability of space resource use is transportation cost.
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So the level of investment depends on expectations about future profitability .
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Subsequently, the company agreed to independent auditing and has returned to profitability .
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That consulting group came to realize earlier than others how important market share was to corporate profitability .
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The objectives of a marketing department are directed towards the attainment of corporate aims, such as profitability growth and social responsibility.