Expensive
Expensive adjective - Commanding a large price.
Profitable and expensive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Profitable" instead an adjective "Expensive".
Profitable
Profitable adjective - Yielding a profit.
Expensive and profitable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expensive" instead an adjective "Profitable".
Both words in one sentence
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Anchorman 2 has Champ telling Ron that chicken is actually too expensive for a fried chicken joint to be profitable, so he has instead been selling his customers fried bats.
Source: Reduced to Ratburgers - In The Han Solo Trilogy it's stated spice is legal, just so expensive due to the Empire's monopoly over it's mining for smuggling to be very profitable.
Source: Spice of Life - It would have been cheaper to make it in live-action — and the less expensive the film, the fewer viewers it takes to make it profitable.
Source: Rule of Animation Conservation
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