unprofitable
adjective
un·prof·it·able
ˌən-ˈprä-fə-tə-bəl 
-ˈpräf-tə-bəl
: not profitable : producing no gain, good, or result
an unprofitable venture
unprofitableness
noun
Examples of unprofitable in a Sentence
an unprofitable effort to find the information
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Over the past decade, DER has restored multiple unprofitable bogs, including the Eel River Headwaters Restoration.
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Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
The company is currently unprofitable.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
The zombie companies made Japan’s economy less efficient and slower-growing, and left generations of Japanese working at unprofitable businesses.
—Allison Schrager, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
More prosaically, the relative underperformance of the S & P Small Cap 600 (made up of profitable companies) to the small-cap Russell 2000 (where the majority are unprofitable) offers a nice impression of the race for more marginal names.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
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Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
The company is currently unprofitable.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
The zombie companies made Japan’s economy less efficient and slower-growing, and left generations of Japanese working at unprofitable businesses.
—Allison Schrager, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
More prosaically, the relative underperformance of the S & P Small Cap 600 (made up of profitable companies) to the small-cap Russell 2000 (where the majority are unprofitable) offers a nice impression of the race for more marginal names.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unprofitable
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“Unprofitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unprofitable. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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