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UNPROFITABLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Producing little or no profit or gain

Example:

deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

dead; idle (not yielding a return)

lean (not profitable or prosperous)

marginal (producing at a rate that barely covers production costs)

unremunerative (not yielding profit or recompense)

Also:

unproductive (not producing or capable of producing)

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

useless (having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully)

Antonym:

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)

Derivation:

unprofitability; unprofitableness (the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit)

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