The phrase "a useful and profitable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that provides both utility and financial benefit or advantage.
Example: "Investing in renewable energy sources can be a useful and profitable strategy for businesses looking to reduce costs and improve sustainability."
Alternatives: "beneficial and lucrative" or "advantageous and rewarding".
It is time to curb the shopping, and the environmental destruction this involves, and to rescue ourselves economically, and in terms of wellbeing, through more of us making intelligent, useful and profitable things contentedly and well.
Such a diagnostic could be extraordinarily useful, and profitable.
Johnson read Abbé Joachim Le Grand's French translations, and thought that a shorter version might be "useful and profitable".
Johnson read Abbe Joachim Le Grand's French translations, and he thought that a shorter version might be "useful and profitable".
"The fact remains that there are more future opportunities," he said in an e-mail, "figuring out useful and profitable (and perhaps personally fulfilling) solutions to the needs of the 4 billion people living on less than $10/day than there are tweaking the next gadget for consumers living at the tip of the world's economic pyramid.
"Industry, if left to itself, will naturally find its way to the most useful and profitable employment, " wrote Hamilton in a summary of this then-new doctrine; "whence it is inferred, that manufactures without the aid of government will grow up as soon and as fast, as the natural state of things and the interest of the community may require".
Respectable economic theory holds that government spending, properly directed, lifts the private sector and makes it more useful and profitable.
This ruling legally permitted ownership rights over GMOs, giving large companies the incentive to rapidly develop GMO tools that could both be useful and profitable.
But despite the analogies to the wired Internet, it is likely to be much harder to create services for wireless devices that are easy, useful and profitable than it has been for the wired world.
And though some of the Republicans debating this week in Las Vegas would scythe away the regulations that make it so hard to do useful and profitable things, such as drilling for gas and oil, many citizens treasure their environment and want to preserve it.
