"These units can provide a very profitable return on private investment."

And as the rates have fallen, many have been looking for more profitable returns on their investments.

To invest is to act for the goal of gaining a profitable return.

Perhaps a stake in a popular club would give profitable returns indirectly through the sale of drink.

Once she can settle the capital issues, you can have a profitable return.

Unaccustomed to manual labour, his services in the field are not of a nature to secure for him a profitable return.

For theater investment, he said, it was necessary to go outside New Zealand because the small population precluded a sufficiently profitable return.

Many investors try not only to make a profitable return, but also to outperform, or beat, the market.

Farmers were unable to get profitable return on their crops, banks and railroads failed nationwide.

An appalling drain on scarce funds which hasn't a hope of making a profitable return on expenditure.