Synonyms:
unprofitable
Meaning: producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable"
Usage examples
Government, I repeat, was to him flat, stale, unprofitable.
He made a patent-medicine almanac into a roll and fitted it with unprofitable carefulness about his finger.
But to Felix everything suddenly became flat, stale, and unprofitable, because Peter continued to hold the championship of bitter apples.
To fall a victim to enthusiasms so raw, so unprofitable from any point of view, was hard. And as to this move to London, he thought he foresaw the certain end of it.
"He must know, if he's as slick at tryin' folks as he is in a hoss dicker," returned an old farmer who had made a trade of steeds which had proved unprofitable for him.
It would call upon men to contribute for public expenses in proportion to the natural opportunities they monopolize, and make it unprofitable for speculators to hold land unused or only partly used, thus opening to labor unlimited fields of employment, solving the labor problem and abolishing involuntary poverty.