rentable
cost-effective [cost effective] ; profitable ; cost-efficient [cost efficient] ; remunerative ; money-making ; win-win + Nombre.
OFFSEARCH is a means of running a search overnight on more than one data base, in a cost-effective mode.
With this type of facility search strategy can be refined to give the most profitable output.
Good libraries are a cost-efficient integral part of an effective correctional programme in a detention centre.
In the early 1860s, the compositors in one shop averaged 9 pound per man in one week - more than five times the average - `while composing some unusually remunerative parliamentary work, and working almost night and day'.
Few booksellers regard their shops simply as money-making enterprises: they believe good bookshops are at least as much a cultural necessity as the public libraries.
The situation appears unstable and unsatisfactory; yet it survives in the absence of something better, such as a win-win scenario where publishers, librarians and researchers could all benefit.
de forma rentable
cost-effectively
Libraries are under pressure to improve productivity and to do this cost-effectively.
hacer rentable
make + profitable
The characteristics of financial information services have made them more profitable than bibliographic products.
negocio muy rentable
money-maker
cash cow
money spinner
Today, tourism is becoming the big money-maker, with rubbernecks preferring Fiji to overcrowded Hawaii.
As the market matures, star products become cash cows.
The Olympic games have become a real money spinner for the UK government.
no rentable
uneconomic
unprofitable
It would be uneconomic and foolish to persevere with human assignment of controlled-language terms.
They are most willing than most to accept an obligation to produce worthwhile but financially unprofitable books and journals.
ser rentable [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio paid]
pay off
be a money-maker
pay
turn + a profit
This is an address given at a seminar on 'Books and businesses: an investment that pays off' at the Turin book fair on 17 May 89.
The onion business is economically stable and is generally a money-maker.
Simply put, it just doesn't pay to digitise information that few can use, and even fewer will pay for.
Libraries are a public good, supported by tax dollars because they are essential to democracy, not because they turn a profit.