What's the difference between profitless and unprofited?
Profitless
Definition:
(a.) Without profit; unprofitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) No account has ever been rendered by either Labour or Conservative governments for their disastrous and profitless interventions.
(2) Facebook itself has driven up the bubble, according to some, by spending $1bn on Instagram, a profitless photo-sharing application.
(3) If Monday’s initial public offering (IPO) goes badly, a lot of other profitless unicorns will start feeling the chill.
(4) "There's enough of what Milan Kundera terms 'Kafkaology' about as it is: seldom has a writer been as profitlessly anatomised – and that largely as a function of writings other than his fiction – as Kafka.
Unprofited
Definition:
(a.) Profitless.
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.