unprofitable
Americanadjective
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being without profit; not showing or turning a profit.
a series of unprofitable ventures.
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pointless or futile.
an unprofitable three years in a routine job.
adjective
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not making a profit
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not fruitful or beneficial
Other Word Forms
- unprofitability noun
- unprofitableness noun
- unprofitably adverb
Etymology
Origin of unprofitable
1275–1325; Middle English. See un- 1, profitable
Example Sentences
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Valuing unprofitable growth stocks in brand-new industries is never easy.
From Barron's
Goldman defines speculative trading based on the share of volume in unprofitable stocks, penny stocks and those companies where the enterprise value to sales is higher than 10.
From MarketWatch
And the Wall Street Journal reported last month that Anthropic, while unprofitable, was on track to become profitable more quickly than OpenAI.
From MarketWatch
These AI start-ups are almost all unprofitable and will have to keep raising capital to pay their cloud bills.
From Barron's
The Bus Services Act aims to protect routes at risk of being cut by operators deeming them unprofitable, by tightening requirements for companies looking to scrap them.
From BBC
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