What's the difference between profit and unprofit?
Profit
Definition:
(n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
(n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
(n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(4) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(5) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(6) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(7) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(8) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(9) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(10) Our positive experiences with IMACS discussed above should be even more profound and profitable for the larger medical institutions.
(11) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(12) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(13) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(14) Knowing the risks of transporting cocaine from Africa to the US, and given the slim profit margin, “tell me who will be doing that kind of deal?” Chigbo asked.
(15) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(16) This year we are growing at more than 20% in terms of volume, but the issue is profit margin.
(17) But without the US business, it will be more reliant on its European business, as well as being less profitable.
(18) Such tales of publicly subsidised private profits very much fit with the wider picture of relations between the City and the nation.
(19) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(20) Where the taxpayer will pay now have to pay replace all the ageing power stations the privates sector has profited from for the last 30 years.
Unprofit
Definition:
(n.) Want of profit; unprofitableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much of the 118-page report focused on new capital requirements that would make it unprofitable for banks to offer high-risk mortgages.
(2) Valco bought the 120-store chain in 2011 for £2m, renegotiated rents at unprofitable outlets and closed several stores.
(3) The prices on hundreds of everyday staple goods are being cut, 43 unprofitable stores are being closed (along with the Cheshunt HQ), the dividend has been axed, and assets such as video streaming site Blinkbox is being sold.
(4) A long hospital length of stay (LOS) for mortalities was very unprofitable (mortalities with more than a 60-day LOS generated $20,210 loss per patient).
(5) The group goes on to closes 500 unprofitable stores and revamps others with wider aisles and better lighting.
(6) Orphan drugs, essential for the treatment of persons with rare diseases, generally are unprofitable for manufacturers to develop and market.
(7) Rather than having one struggling, unprofitable phone company, we will have two strong companies."
(8) Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...” “What was he like as a person?” asked Dalgliesh.
(9) Further work-up was unprofitable in 14 patients (2.4%).
(10) The developers plead that the complexities of the site, which includes a working section of the London overground railway, make it unprofitable to offer more, or to reduce the bulk of their towers.
(11) The ideal antibiotic of last resort would be almost completely unprofitable – since it would hardly ever be used, to preserve its effectiveness.
(12) While London might be able to afford to lose a hospital, rural areas cannot and careful oversight will be required to ensure that hospitals are slimming back services that are better provided in the community and not cutting essential but unprofitable services.
(13) In some provinces close to Lake Titicaca, the raising of sheep was forced to discontinue, because infection with the fluke made it unprofitable and almost impossible.
(14) 12.25pm BST Now Mrs Ward asks whether M&S is closing unprofitable stores, or converting them into food-only outlets.
(15) Investors are especially concerned about potentially wasteful spending to develop new fossil fuel reserves that would be unprofitable at today’s oil prices.
(16) Few companies are now involved in antibiotic research, which has become an unprofitable field.
(17) Our findings were as follows: (1) With charges as a measure of expense under both payment schemes, all clinical departments had large groups of unprofitable patients: Medicare, $12,895,038; all-payor system, $15,553,893.
(18) "Whaling is an unprofitable business that can survive only with substantial subsidies and one that caters to an increasingly shrinking and ageing market," the report says.
(19) A long hospital length of stay for patients who eventually died was very unprofitable (those who died after more than a 60-day hospital length of stay generated a $24,688 loss per patient).
(20) The co-existed diseases and complications had influence to unprofitable results of treatment.