Synonym: fruitless, profitable. Similar words: profitable, nonprofit, unpredictable, profit, profits, at a profit, profit motive, profit margin. Meaning: adj. 1. producing little or no profit or gain 2. not worth using 3. without profit or reward.
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1. Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit. 
2. The newspaper is believed to have been unprofitable for at least the past decade.
3. This is an unprofitable discussion. Our standpoints are too different.
4. The government can't bail out every unprofitable state enterprise.
5. The day proved frustratingly unprofitable.
6. After John found farming unprofitable, he moved to town and turned his hand to carpentry.
7. The survival package involves selling off the unprofitable parts of the troubled company.
8. It would be unprofitable to pursue this argument any further.
9. I stopped this unprofitable growth just in time.
10. It simultaneously deprives unprofitable industries of scarce resources.
11. A market share that is unprofitable does not signify a successful investment. hidden costs 166 Here the investment seems simple at first.
12. No wonder brewers find themselves with unprofitable outlets in such areas, whatever pub concept they apply to them.
13. Unprofitable flight routes have been axed as recession hits the aviation industry.
14. As farming in North Queensferry, Fife, proved unprofitable, he moved to London in 1828.
15. The moment it becomes unprofitable to do so, there is no doubt in my mind that the tree-farmers will abandon these forests.
16. Since moving out of the unprofitable world of defence, Trend has returned to profits of ￡900,000.
17. Pinkerton's is divesting itself of $120 million in unprofitable business.
18. Rural railway lines risk being axed because they are unprofitable.
19. He was a gunsmith who turned to tailoring after the declining need for full-time gunmakers made the craft unprofitable.
20. You certainly appear to have reached a major turning point in your career and must now think about severing unprofitable ties.
21. And it has nothing to do with the much ballyhooed and largely unprofitable biotech industry.
22. As the seams of coal and iron were exhausted, or became unprofitable to work, mining and smelting diminished.
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23. The bank isn't likely to lend money to an unprofitable business like yours.
24. In addition they were perceived to be inefficient, measured in terms of productivity, and also unprofitable, causing a drain on public finances.
25. National wage agreements no longer guarantee job security, particularly when currency fluctuations can make job creation unprofitable, he said.
26. They said state rules would have made Caller ID unprofitable by exempting millions of unlisted numbers.
27. LeBow bought the Liggett Group in 1986 and later combined it with several other unprofitable companies into the Brooke Group.
28. Wall Street had speculated earlier this week that Kodak would unload the unprofitable unit.
29. Real wages were pulled up and older machines rendered unprofitable, allowing a faster transfer of workers to the new machines.
30. Eflornithine, a new drug for sleeping sickness, was discontinued because it was unprofitable.
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