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- adverb In a manner that is not
economical .
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Examples
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If we're not careful as an industry, we will end up investing uneconomically in providing data services, Mr. Azwan said.
Asian Carriers Move Away From Unlimited Data Plans Lorraine Luk 2011
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Four bucks is the point at which people stop driving, airlines start charging extra to lose your luggage, and Hummers lumber uneconomically into that long oil-soaked night.
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It is solely an economic argument: Compensation structured as it has been in the financial sector results in an uneconomically excessive amount of risk-taking, just as a failure to make a polluter internalize the costs of pollution provides an incentive for him to produce more than if he had to pay all the costs he imposes on society.
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It is solely an economic argument: Compensation structured as it has been in the financial sector results in an uneconomically excessive amount of risk-taking, just as a failure to make a polluter internalize the costs of pollution provides an incentive for him to produce more than if he had to pay all the costs he imposes on society.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Irwin Stelzer on Executive Compensation: 2009
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If these two things do not happen then we will be behaving uneconomically, in the most orthodox sense of the word.
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Clearly, while a trading bank will want to set a competitive variable rate to keep existing customers and attract new ones, a bank in liquidation may set that rate uneconomically high to try and get rid of its existing customers.
Saturday Question 2008
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Their management had resulted in the department being managed both inefficiently and uneconomically.
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The AG highlighted vehicles that were repaired uneconomically when two cars originally bought for R27200 and R11502 were repaired at a cost of R50416 and R29431 respectively.
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"Agricultural land will be injudiciously and uneconomically shredded because the Act on the redistribution of agricultural land is not applicable here."
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"The fragmentation of the distribution sector of the industry has resulted in too many distributors with often too small a consumer base, which often operate inefficiently and uneconomically."
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