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Definition: Unremunerative |
UnremunerativeAdjective1. Not yielding profit or recompense; "an unremunerative occupation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unremunerative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Crosswords: Unremunerative |
| Specialty definitions using "unremunerative": Famine ♦ Pictures. (references) |
| "Unremunerative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unremunerative" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unremunerative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неизгоден (disadvantageous, unprofitable), недоходен (lean, marginal, unprofitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kannattamaton (uneconomic, unprofitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coefficient de detour (unremunerative mileage factor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nicht einträglich (unrewarding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emunerativeunray невыгодный (disadvantaged, disadvantageous, disadventageous, thriftless, unbeneficed, unbeneficial, unprofitable). (various references) föga lönande. (various references) kazançsız (gainless), kârsız (gainless, profitless, unprofitable). (various references) không có lợi (inexpedient, profitless, unbeneficial, unprofitable), không đem lại lợi lộc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gratuita, gratuito. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-i-m-n-n-r-r-t-u-u-v" | |
-2 letters: remunerative. | |
-3 letters: enumerative, reinnervate. | |
-4 letters: aventurine, innumerate, intervener, maneuverer, remunerate, turnverein. | |
-5 letters: entrainer, enumerate, innervate, intervene, inurement, nemertean, nemertine, venireman, veniremen, veratrine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 6D 75 6E 65 72 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . -- ..- -. . .-. .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01101101 01110101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e m u n e r a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 006D 0075 006E 0065 0072 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580847179878071846786758871 |
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