0 not making a profit:
unprofitable investments/businesses
2 not making a profit:
Its function is to induce individuals to disengage, without conscious intention, from unprofitable situations.
Since abilityto-pay is low in poor nations, tying the innovator's compensation to benchmark year sales results in low powered incentives for work on 'unprofitable' diseases.
The equal division of property, especially land, results in what are often small, unprofitable shares that are then quickly sold, leaving little lasting benefit.
My preliminary remarks on "so-called incorporation" explain why the problem of the boundaries of law is an unprofitable focus for a jurisprudential discussion.
Becoming a skilled laborer was often seen as an alternative to unprofitable and socially disagreeable agricultural work or menial labor.
However, so heavy was the take of walrus during the next 3-4 years that stocks were quickly depleted and the area became unprofitable.
To sustain profitability, corporations employ strategies of "demarketing," namely, concerted efforts to drive away unprofitable patients and deemphasize unprofitable services.
Some fields of copper and nickel were found, but most were unprofitable because of the small water volume of local rivers.