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
Fact was, New Haven could not gracefully disgorge because it had guaranteed millions of dollars of bonds of nonprofitable non-railroad subsidiaries which have hobbled it ever since.
From Time Magazine Archive
