Unprofitable

/ʌnˈpɹɑf.ɪ.təbl̩/ · adjective

Meaning

Not making a profit..

Definitions by Sense

1. Not making a profit.
2. A person or thing that fails to make a profit.

Example Sentences

Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable.

The undermediators are not required, have nothing properly to do, no peculiar duty to perform; but are an unprofitable or inutile set of beings sitting down and looking at each other through want of other occupation.

Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]

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 […]

In addition, over 350 little-used stations were closed, and reductions were made in unprofitable train services.

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• more unprofitable
• most unprofitable
• unprofitables

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