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- noun The state or condition of being
unprofitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit
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Examples
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While Spoornet had become the latest victim of Transnet's privatisation, a lot of dirty tricks were hidden beneath Spoornet's so-called unprofitability, he said.
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Late last month, NewPage Port Hawkesbury put itself into "downtime," citing more than a year of unprofitability.
NewPage Files for Chapter 11 Mike Spector 2011
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I would expect startup firms, such as those funded by Mr. Wiggins's company, to be S corporations during their period of unprofitability, or to be LLCs if their owners are ineligible to own shares in S corporations, if this tax is truly a major disincentive to be here.
The Wall Street rants, and gets it wrong (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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After a successful 15-year stint as head of the Pro Bull Riders tour, Bernard answered an executive search from IndyCar, then known as the Indy Racing League, which had just ousted founder Tony George who had essentially inherited the reigns of the organization in a convergence of family politics and unprofitability.
Karl Ueberbacher: Indycar's Las Vegas Gamble: Series Chief Doubles Down on Season Finale Karl Ueberbacher 2011
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Yet the bank's returns on tangible equity are among the lowest of any major European bank, a reflection of the structural unprofitability of the Italian market and exacerbated by Mr. Profumo's ill-judged acquisition of Capitalia in 2007.
UniCredit's Boardroom Fiasco Simon Nixon 2010
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And some consolidation is probably desirable given the industry's chronic unprofitability.
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But I was shocked to learn just how many effective anti-venoms are going off the market because of a combination of unprofitability and FDA over-regulation.
A real health care crisis - anti-venoms are leaving the market Nomad 2010
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It is a market in a perpetual state of collective paralysis and unprofitability.
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When governments seek to keep failed business concepts alive, they subsidize unprofitability.
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Would you be amenable to punishing those who hire illegals with five years 'worth of 20% annual tax penalties with additional five-year extensions for repeat offenders, thereby establishing a corollary between hiring illegals and unprofitability, the only language a company understand?
R.A. Robinson: Illegal Immigration: The Republican Wedge Issue for 2008? 2008
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