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UNPROFITABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unprofitability mean?
• UNPROFITABILITY (noun)
The noun UNPROFITABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit
Familiarity information: UNPROFITABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
unprofitability; unprofitableness
Hypernyms ("unprofitability" is a kind of...):
disadvantage (the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position)
Antonym:
profitability (the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit)
Derivation:
unprofitable (producing little or no profit or gain)
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