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- adj. financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss making
WordNet 3.0
- adj. wasteful of resources
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“Some would result from the ability of a number of foreign companies, currently forced by the tariff to maintain uneconomic manufacturing facilities here, to close down their plants, leaving the remainder far better placed to achieve competitive production.”
“He believed the terms uneconomic and therefore unsound, but it was worth taking a chance on interpretation, a desperate venture perhaps, but anything to stop the blare and bicker of the council table and start the work of reconstruction.”
“All farms rated below £4, and a large number of those below £15, may be regarded as "uneconomic" -- that is, incapable by themselves of supplying”
“It is these fees which tilt the balance and make the whole process of on-farm anaerobic digestion uneconomic, which is why there are so few plants in the UK compared with the continent.”
“The Convention on Biological Diversity was opened for signature at the Earth Summit, and made a start towards redefinition of money supply measures that did not inherently encourage destruction of natural ecoregions and so-called uneconomic growth.”
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“This is what Herman Daly refers to as uneconomic growth ', or "growth that increases costs faster than benefits, thereby making us poorer.”
“uneconomic' - and hence my dad had been given a lump sum to tie him over.”
“That sounds somewhat compatible with Caplan's suggestion of a "council of economists" to rule certain laws "uneconomic".”
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“In addition, De Alwis said Sigma was renegotiating terms with major customers to adjust "uneconomic" contracts.”
“All future projects would become "uneconomic," under the new bill, Mr. Ward said, and "companies will be unwilling to invest in Nigeria.”
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