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n. - The quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit.

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Usage examples (37)
  • Adjective : a series of unprofitable ventures. ,an unprofitable three years in a routine job
  • While Spoornet had become the latest victim of Transnet's privatisation, a lot of dirty tricks were hidden beneath Spoornet's so-called unprofitability, he said.
  • It is a market in a perpetual state of collective paralysis and unprofitability.
  • And some consolidation is probably desirable given the industry's chronic unprofitability.
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