Adjective : a series of unprofitable ventures. ,an unprofitable three years in a routine job.    From Dictionary.com. 

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It is a market in a perpetual state of collective paralysis and unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [GM Restructuring Really Looking Smart] Reference

And some consolidation is probably desirable given the industry's chronic unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Last Stand in the Air] Reference

A tactic that will be used by Obama will be to regulate the private health insurers into unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Gut Them Like Trouts] Reference

Probably the biggest single cause of resistance to change is the unprofitability of the new technology as seen by the fisherman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

In 1996, some mines negotiated extra voluntary shifts with their workers in order to save thousands of jobs threatened by unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

When it comes to the unprofitability of his films, Mr. DiCillo tends to lay the blame -- in angry heaps -- at the feet of his distributors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weepy Indie Director Tom DiCillo Brings His Big Gamble to Sundance] Reference

Citigroup said in a research note that Silverjet's demise isn't too surprising given its unprofitability and the failures of MAXjet and EOS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silverjet Grounds Flights] Reference

But I was shocked to learn just how many effective anti-venoms are going off the market because of a combination of unprofitability and FDA over-regulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A real health care crisis - anti-venoms are leaving the market] Reference

It's hard to care about what mutant dies in X-Men when you know that he'll be back sooner rather than later, and that the only thing that can end his adventures is unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cronin Theory of Comics – Theories on Comic Book Death | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Yet the bank's returns on tangible equity are among the lowest of any major European bank, a reflection of the structural unprofitability of the Italian market and exacerbated by Mr. Profumo's ill-judged acquisition of Capitalia in 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [UniCredit's Boardroom Fiasco] Reference

I would expect startup firms, such as those funded by Mr. Wiggins's company, to be S corporations during their period of unprofitability, or to be LLCs if their owners are ineligible to own shares in S corporations, if this tax is truly a major disincentive to be here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wall Street rants, and gets it wrong (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference

Would you be amenable to punishing those who hire illegals with five years 'worth of 20% annual tax penalties with additional five-year extensions for repeat offenders, thereby establishing a corollary between hiring illegals and unprofitability, the only language a company understand?.    From Wordnik.com.  [R.A. Robinson: Illegal Immigration: The Republican Wedge Issue for 2008?] Reference

The Street has posted on this epic unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Five million dollars is a nice reward for unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gawker] Reference

Gillard defends receivers 'silence on ABC Learning unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

And neither is Google, which continues to throw cash at YouTube's unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Register] Reference

The order, which Mosaic has said pushed the mine into unprofitability, expires on July 28.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal] Reference

Sure is wierd that the street or microsoft hasn't posted on this epic unprofitability. .hmm.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

And with these companies we can find unprofitability, negative cash flow, and debt problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fool.com Headlines] Reference

The AA blamed widespread unprofitability among car insurance companies for the rise in premiums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

In that time period, Atmel's growth rates haven't been meaningful because of its current unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Atmel Expensive by the Numbers? (ATML, CY, LSI, MCHP)] Reference

Phillips's addressed the unprofitability of slave labor and slavery's ill effects on the southern economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Recall a year ago when company after company had fallen into a recession-ravaged operating unprofitability?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

A few angry franchisees aren't the issue - there are serious issues with unprofitability across the network.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Post: News] Reference

This odd ownership/unprofitability juxtaposition is probably the place to begin to understand the FED's purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eternity Road] Reference

So, the unprofitability of SurModics as a whole has more to do with where the pharmaceutical business is at this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [SurModics Management Discusses F1Q 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha] Reference

When you consider the above comments hinting at perpetual unprofitability, ask yourself: How, for the love of Pete, will these companies repay taxpayers?.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Don't forget, it was a conservative (small c) liberal government that stopped them from expanding into unprofitability in the neo-con expansion frenzy of the 90s.    From Wordnik.com.  [rabble.ca - News for the rest of us] Reference

The high first-quarter claims pushed Swiss Re's Property and Casualty unit's combined ratio above the 100 percent mark that separates operating profitability from unprofitability to.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBTimes.com RSS Feed] Reference

Here's how Atmel compares it its peers for trailing five-year growth (unfortunately, because of current or past unprofitability, three of the four companies' growth rates aren't meaningful).    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Atmel Expensive by the Numbers? (ATML, CY, LSI, MCHP)] Reference

Sony Ericsson continued to dig its way out of a long period of unprofitability Friday as it reported its second quarterly profit in a row on strong sales of its entertainment-oriented mobile phones.    From Wordnik.com.  [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference

Cache's way out of "repeated seasons of declining sales and unprofitability," Cache, together with the two former employees, both of whom joined Cache from WH | BM in the fall of 2009, misappropriated the trade secrets, proprietary designs and confidential information of WH | BM.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

5. The U.S. manufacturers did have a period of unprofitability in the middle of this decade, but had reduced costs significantly and were in positions to be profitable when the U.S. government backed financial meltdown occurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Additional Thoughts on Letting GM Die] Reference

"With all the turmoil in the airline industry and the constant fear of unprofitability and bankruptcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

52 minutes ago, -0/+4The media conglomerates bought it, laid off the employees, and shut it down, citing unprofitability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference