unprofitable
Example Sentences
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Prices are likely reaching a danger zone in which some businesses pare back operations that are now unprofitable, said Roukaya Ibrahim, chief commodity strategist at BCA Research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
It stated that all five New Zealand provinces were cumulatively unprofitable across the past six years, with current holders the Hurricanes posting a loss of $1.4m in 2023 and almost $2m in 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Among his best-known reforms were a broad programme to privatise unprofitable state-owned enterprises, the privatisation of urban housing and the promotion of home ownership.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Processing cattle is unprofitable for meatpackers currently because of high livestock prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The group’s current president, Carrie Chapman Catt, agreed, calling the protesters “unwise and unprofitable to the cause.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
