• clear profit, gravy, net proceeds, that is so much to the good
• narrow margin of profit
• with an eye to the main chance
• eager for gain, utilitarian, venal
• profiteering, self-interest
• barren, fiddling, futile, helpless, idle, null, of no utility, otiose, unavailable, unavailing, unhelpful, wicked
• to lease out, to let by lease