What is "unremunerative"

Usage examples of "unremunerative".

The investigations include the possibility of making satisfactory commercial fuels from lignite or low-grade coals which do not stand shipment well, the benefiting of culm or slack coals which are wasted or sold at unremunerative prices, and the possibility of improving the efficiency of good coals.

From its surface jutted points of the same rock that had made farming unremunerative, and to these miniature promontories and islands Ainsley, in keeping with a fancied resemblance, gave such names as the Needles, St.

And the reader will not be able to understand the world-wide tolerance of growing armaments and war preparations during this period unless he realizes the immediate need inherent in the system for unremunerative public expenditure.

He was little interested in speculating over unremunerative problems of antiquity.

Victor ejaculated: he never could reach to a right comprehension of labour, in regard to the very unremunerative occupation of literature.

It seemed very unremunerative labour indeed, and the family had done well to migrate from Essex into Switzerland, where, besides the excellent schools which cost barely two pounds annually per head, the children learned the language and enjoyed the air of forest and mountain into the bargain.

He gave too much attention to these unremunerative studies of types she never met in actual life.

Some of her politicians would no doubt support the proposal with views of their own,--but it would be a serious, and for some time unremunerative, addition to their very embarrassing debt.

I should think the disappearance of that long, lugubrious stiff has saved us no end of mental anguish, not to mention unremunerative labor.

The result may be imagined: he worked very hard in many evil climates, broke down his health, dissipated his large private means in supporting unremunerative enterprises, and died saddened and impoverished.

But the Empire has gained, for Rhodesia does not run away, like the capital, in over-financed and unremunerative companies.

He took no fees, being at heart a genuine philanthropist, yet at the same time did no harm to his fellow-practitioners, because he only accepted unremunerative cases, and cases that interested him for some very special reason.

Since then I have been indulging in the unremunerative and highly monotonous occupation of censoring.

When I was quite a young man I adopted literature as a profession, and having passed through the necessary preparatory grades, I found myself, after a good many years of hard and often unremunerative work, in possession of what might be called a fair literary practice.

She had worked hard at various unremunerative employments since the death of her paralysed father early in the war, and when her Aunt Marian died, leaving her sole legatee, she gave away the clothes she had worn till she hated the sight of them, shook the dust of the latest boarding-house off her feet and moved in the luxurious up-to-date Parade Hotel at Sunhaven, prepared to enjoy as much of her life as remained to her.