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‘A company can be profitable.’

[⟨det company.n⟩ profitable.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This method has worked extremely well for Acorn in the past, having successfully brought several companies public and turned private companies profitable.
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In Wikipedia:

The Arcadia Group has been enormously profitable, and currently has pre – tax profits of around 380 million.
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In Wikipedia:

MCI set up this service on AT & Ts most profitable long distance routes, and began undercutting AT & Ts long distance service.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They can use advertising, merchant deals, and outside subsidy to make a better product that much less available to the consumer. so while there is some room for privatization, it is not the responsibility of the government to see that a company is profitable.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

VCs will not invest in startups that address a small niche market, or companies that are profitable but don’t look like they can bring 10X returns.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We continue to believe that the company can be profitable at $ 65–70 million in annual revenues, and that, more important, it is taking the appropriate steps to reach that threshold. – Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter Link
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In Wikipedia:

In a speech to the staff to announce the merger, Bob Gordon, the Managing Director (who had been the old Merlin Managing Director) assured everyone that under his management the new company would be very profitable and everybody’s job was secure.
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In Wikipedia:

The company is has been profitable in recent years and is one of the leading fabrication companies in its field.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I really think the information I learned this week will make our company more profitable and will take us up one step on the technology ladder.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The firm said FNM’s capital and reserves are better than perceived and that the company should be profitable in late 2010.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

As career corporate finance wizards are responsible for making a company profitable and keeping it profitable.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Clearspring has received more than $ 35 million in funding since it was founded in 2004 and has about $ 10 milion in annual sales, but neither company is currently profitable.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m embarrassed to admit that my company’s website actually won a contest where the goal was to find a profitable hosting company with a terrible website.
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In Wikipedia:

Ridership reached a peak in 1915 and fell steadily thereafter; cost savings through four new lightweight cars and cheaper power kept the company profitable even as the automobile ate into the company’s resort traffic.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

If everyone involved in the manner of accounting followed their own work, or no unify at all, theres be no way to truly tell whether a company was profitable or not.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Profitability A recovering company should be profitable, profitability should be increasing, and cash profit should cover accounting profit.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Tim Delaney, 62, says he can be tough to work with because he pushes his staff to be thorough, and to think like management consultants trying to make a company more profitable.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The company is profitable and has demonstrated consistent quarter over quarter growth.
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In the British National Corpus:

But they are not simply pursuing every fashionable preoccupation: 76% thought that in the long term, an environmentally responsible company was more profitable, whereas only 12% thought is less.
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Queried on 2013-05-23.