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- adjective Not
remunerative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not yielding profit or recompense
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Examples
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Market scrutiny exposes fraud, and thereby prevents fraud by giving business managers a constant stream of object lessons about what behaviors to avoid since scamming investors is usually an unremunerative strategy.
Is Every Chinese Firm a Scam? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Having a monopoly of the safe investments, the great masses of unremunerative capital would be directed, not to the production of more surplus value, but to the making of permanent improvements, which would give employment to the people, and make them content with the new order of things.
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Market scrutiny exposes fraud, and thereby prevents fraud by giving business managers a constant stream of object lessons about what behaviors to avoid since scamming investors is usually an unremunerative strategy.
Is Every Chinese Firm a Scam? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Darrow was reluctant after years of participation in controversial and often unremunerative labor cases.
A Man in Search of a Lost Cause Carl Rollyson 2011
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Now if you were the one who is pregnant, I could understand the whole thing, but as it is, I thought I was almost doing you a favour, taking this troublesome and unremunerative business to someone else.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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Entry-level journalism is a painfully unremunerative job, especially for one of the most expensive cities to live in.
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It's an unremunerative drain on my time and energies, one more obligation every over-obliged day, and a burden of guilt each day when I don't add to the blog.
Archive 2008-04-27 2008
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It's an unremunerative drain on my time and energies, one more obligation every over-obliged day, and a burden of guilt each day when I don't add to the blog.
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He embarked on that most unremunerative of careers, epistemology, and entered a doctoral program in philosophy at Ohio State.
The Hive 2006
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He embarked on that most unremunerative of careers, epistemology, and entered a doctoral program in philosophy at Ohio State.
The Hive 2006
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