单词 | profitless |
释义 | profitless (once / 8407 pages) adj WORD FAMILY profitless: profitlessly+/nonprofit: nonprofits/profit: nonprofit, profitable, profited, profiteer, profiting, profitless, profits, profitting/profitable: profitability, profitableness, profitabler, profitablest, profitably, unprofitable/profiteer: profiteered, profiteering, profiteers/unprofitable: unprofitability, unprofitableness, unprofitably USAGE EXAMPLESCompanies spent billions of dollars reprogramming their computers for the Year 2000 bug, and profitless dot-com startups won giant valuations from optimistic investors. Wall Street Journal(Oct 12, 2016) But Twitter lost another $90 million during the final three months of last year, preserving its profitless history. Washington Times(Apr 08, 2016) This binge has left many state-owned firms vulnerable to slowdown, turning them into profitless zombies. Economist(Feb 25, 2016) adj without profit or reward "let us have no part in profitless quarrels"- D.D.Eisenhower Syn unrewarding not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction |
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