profitable
adjective
yielding profit; remunerative.
nonprofitable
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a word derived from
profitable.
Example Sentences
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A Goldman Sachs basket of nonprofitable technology companies dropped 21% from its mid-October peak through Nov. 21, after soaring earlier in the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
Sow and Friedman say they didn’t fully grapple with how being business partners might affect the nonprofitable parts of their friendship until long after they’d formed a formal LLC.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2020
“It became a nonprofitable decision to stay open on Thanksgiving,” said eBags Inc. Chief Executive Mike Edwards, who is also a former Staples executive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2015
The plan also threatens nonprofitable concerns with closure if they fail to turn themselves around.
From Reuters ● Jul. 8, 2013
Chaplin has promised his pictures to the Museum eventually, but so long as they are moneymakers, he is not interested in having them used for nonprofitable study.
From Time Magazine Archive
