low profitability
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflowandprofitability
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low
adjective
uk/ləʊ/us/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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profitability
noun[U]
uk/ˌprɒf.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌprɑː.fɪ.t̬əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact that something produces or is likely to produce ...
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(Definition oflowandprofitabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The main causes arelowprofitabilityand that fertilizers alone are hardly sufficient for the wider goal of overall development.
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However,lowprofitabilityand poor market infrastructure, combined with a support price system for wheat, limit the production area of these crops.
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We have also stressed itslowprofitabilityand the high capital investment there is in the merchant fleet.
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The plain fact is that the industry during past years has suffered fromlowprofitabilitybecause of much outdated equipment and buildings.
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I ask him to think seriously about that idea, so that farmers on the margins, withlowprofitability, are covered.
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Industry has lacked the resources to create capacity because oflowprofitabilityduring past periods of stagnation.
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However, we suffer from inflation, from the wage cost explosion, from unemployment, fromlowprofitabilityand from low investment.
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The net result was that those six years were years oflowprofitability, years of excessive bankruptcies.
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It is generally recognised that this has been the major cause of serious under-investment,lowprofitabilityand poor competitiveness over the last decade.
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The symptoms are all too familiar—poor order books orlowprofitability, or both, leading to higher borrowings and cash flow problems.
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The firms involved in the extraction of sand and gravel and road materials are seriously concerned about theirlowprofitability.
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Certainly they are mistimed, because they have been made at a time oflowprofitabilitywithin industry as a whole.
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Where we saw low productivity andlowprofitability, we see high productivity and high profitability.
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Firstly, funds should only be used where other sources are not appropriate, owing either to high risk orlowprofitability.
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Already many solicitors in my constituency have abandoned legal aid because of thelowprofitability.
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Many sectors of the industry now face severe market conditions andlowprofitability.
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By all accounts, 1965 will be another year oflowprofitabilityfor the shipping industry.
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They are industries which, by and large, havelowprofitabilitymargins, and the squeeze on labour will be great.
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It is a fact that in this industry there are cycles of prosperity and periods like the present period of verylowprofitability.
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