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• n  the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit

• Thatcher would like to return a number of nationalized industries to the private sector, but in light of their unprofitability, there would be few takers.
• Despite the unprofitability of the joint venture.
• Despite their reputation for chronic unprofitability, the country's major listed companies posted a combined total annual income in fiscal 2002 that was 20% higher than in the .

• unprofitableness

• profitableness
• profitability

News & Articles

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• A Long Fall for Taiwan Smartphone Maker
  Marketing, sales and distribution problems, along with spiraling inventory costs, have killed HTC's momentum and are dragging the company into unprofitability.
  Sept. 8, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Julia Gillard in The Age
  The question of profitability or unprofitability is a judgement the receiver would make and the receiver understandably some 24 hours afterwards was saying that he was working on preliminary data,Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard said.