Payably
Full definition of payably
Adverb
payably
- Of a mine etc.: so as to yield profit; profitably.
- 1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography (page 126)In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable ...