Meaning & use
Unprofitable
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Not yielding a profit; failing to produce a useful or beneficial return.
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The company shut down its unprofitable overseas division.
He considered the long debate an unprofitable use of everyone's time.
A note on using this word
Unprofitable can describe both financial losses and, more broadly, any effort that fails to produce worthwhile results.
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loss-makingunproductive
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