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单词 unremunerative
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Definition of unremunerative in English:

unremunerative

adjective ʌnrɪˈmjuːn(ə)rətɪvˌənrəˈmjunərədɪv
  • Bringing little or no profit or income.

    无利可图的,赚不到钱的;无报酬的

    unremunerative research work

    几乎无回报的研究工作。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Persistence in unremunerative employment may entitle the court to impute income.
    • Several representatives sought assistance from the government for procuring fodder and setting up additional cattle pounds for animals that are either ill or found to be unremunerative for farmers.
    • The Punjab farmer has nowhere else to sell, and is compelled to accept the unremunerative terms offered by the Central government and its trading agencies or let his wheat rot.
    • The export market has become unremunerative over the years.
    • It had always been a popular system of out-relief for the unemployed of every other profession, including the notoriously insecure and unremunerative one of politics.
    • Surely, in a drought year, it makes economic sense for him to sell water (without any effort) which is at a great premium, than toil growing paddy that would fetch him unremunerative prices!
    • This was investigated and a proposal for a dam costing Rs.3.72 crore was given up as unremunerative.
    • Hence it has happened and will happen again, that work which has been undertaken at unremunerative rates has been ‘scamped’ to make it pay.
    • Her observation that the traditional art forms face extinction, for lack of adequate support, technological influences and unremunerative returns is true.
    • Its aims are to produce books of religious, scholarly, and educational value, and, its surplus profits being devoted to financing the editing and production of unremunerative works of this kind, its status is that of a charity.
    • My own experience as an ‘intellectual’ thus far has been halting, backtracking, often unfinished, particularly unremunerative, and certainly not respectable.
    • Consequently, the Treasury argued that nationalised industries should be set clearer financial targets: and if ministers required them to perform unremunerative tasks in the public interest this should be stated publicly.
    • Basmati, which had almost vanished from Punjab due to unremunerative prices, is now grown abundantly in the state, thanks mostly to contract farming.
    • At the end of September 1862 a Victoria newspaper reported that ‘freights in the upper country are now so low that packers are turning out their animals to winter, rather than working them for unremunerative prices’.
    • As soon as he left the unremunerative world of crime for a steady job with the forces of order, he became significantly more intelligent.
    Synonyms
    fruitless, futile, vain, idle, useless, worthless, valueless, pointless, ineffective, ineffectual, to no effect, impotent, inefficacious, unprofitable, unrewarding

Derivatives

  • unremuneratively

  • adverb
    • He thought about the position of the artist in society, and about his rent, and about his friends getting rich in advertising, and law - not to mention as art dealers - and the ones ensconced cozily if unremuneratively in warm, stable graduate schools.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Doubtless some among them were tempted to seek business by cutting the commissions charged their patrons to an unremuneratively low level.
      • No harp and violin, no cigar-smoking captain, no busy venders of ‘comic broadsheets;’ all dull, and dreary, and weary - looking, as men are when unremuneratively ‘hard at it.’
      • The rates, which were unremuneratively low on some of the lines, were then adjusted.
      • First, obviously agriculture should not be destroyed by unremuneratively low prices.
  • unremunerativeness

  • noun

Definition of unremunerative in US English:

unremunerative

adjectiveˌənrəˈmyo͞onərədivˌənrəˈmjunərədɪv
  • Bringing little or no profit or income.

    无利可图的,赚不到钱的;无报酬的

    unremunerative research work

    几乎无回报的研究工作。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Several representatives sought assistance from the government for procuring fodder and setting up additional cattle pounds for animals that are either ill or found to be unremunerative for farmers.
    • It had always been a popular system of out-relief for the unemployed of every other profession, including the notoriously insecure and unremunerative one of politics.
    • Basmati, which had almost vanished from Punjab due to unremunerative prices, is now grown abundantly in the state, thanks mostly to contract farming.
    • This was investigated and a proposal for a dam costing Rs.3.72 crore was given up as unremunerative.
    • My own experience as an ‘intellectual’ thus far has been halting, backtracking, often unfinished, particularly unremunerative, and certainly not respectable.
    • Her observation that the traditional art forms face extinction, for lack of adequate support, technological influences and unremunerative returns is true.
    • Persistence in unremunerative employment may entitle the court to impute income.
    • Hence it has happened and will happen again, that work which has been undertaken at unremunerative rates has been ‘scamped’ to make it pay.
    • Consequently, the Treasury argued that nationalised industries should be set clearer financial targets: and if ministers required them to perform unremunerative tasks in the public interest this should be stated publicly.
    • Surely, in a drought year, it makes economic sense for him to sell water (without any effort) which is at a great premium, than toil growing paddy that would fetch him unremunerative prices!
    • The Punjab farmer has nowhere else to sell, and is compelled to accept the unremunerative terms offered by the Central government and its trading agencies or let his wheat rot.
    • The export market has become unremunerative over the years.
    • As soon as he left the unremunerative world of crime for a steady job with the forces of order, he became significantly more intelligent.
    • At the end of September 1862 a Victoria newspaper reported that ‘freights in the upper country are now so low that packers are turning out their animals to winter, rather than working them for unremunerative prices’.
    • Its aims are to produce books of religious, scholarly, and educational value, and, its surplus profits being devoted to financing the editing and production of unremunerative works of this kind, its status is that of a charity.
    Synonyms
    fruitless, futile, vain, idle, useless, worthless, valueless, pointless, ineffective, ineffectual, to no effect, impotent, inefficacious, unprofitable, unrewarding
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