Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

subprofitable en · ADJ

Etymology

From sub- + profitable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not profitable; failing to make a profit.
    • […] and it tends to compete down premiums everywhere else and reduce the profitability of insurance and quite often puts it into a subprofitable mode. 2004, Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Representatives, page 30480:
    • It is therefore, plausible to assume that a company might not actually loose^([sic]) cash, but simply allocate capital to subprofitable projects. 2004, U. Steger, The Business of Sustainability, page 9: