payably

adv

payably

adv

Etymology From payable + -ly.

1

Of a mine etc.: so as to yield profit; profitably.

  • 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 […]1887, R. A. Murray, Victoria. Geology and Physical Geography, page 126:

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