| Yet none was used, largely because their use would have been profitless. |
| If businesses became profitless, he said, entrepreneurs could not pay the salaries of employees and would not survive long. |
| The cycle of hopeful experiment followed by complete failure went on in profitless repetition. |
| As was amply demonstrated during the dotcom boom, many people bought shares in profitless, no-hope companies purely because the shares had risen substantially beforehand. |
| Health care organizations are looking for ways to end profitless growth, a situation in which beds are full and resources appear to be fully used but profits remain stagnant. |
| Several of them, like many others, became self-employed in raising shrimps and crabs, but excessive rain this year made this totally profitless. |
