Crossword clues for uneconomic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uneconomic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Workers in uneconomic areas of the economy fought hard to keep their factories and mines open.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All of this saves considerable cost without which the production of many foods would be uneconomic or impracticable.
▪ Now oil has also become uneconomic, forcing N. Ireland's gas undertakings to close.
▪ Previously you had to be part of a quarrelsome, uneconomic unit of orthodoxy known as a church.
▪ The National Coal Board wanted to close some uneconomic pits and their advice was that this could be achieved by local talks.
▪ Therefore, the Beeching proposals were quite drastic, although arguably there was no commercial alternative to closing numerous uneconomic lines.
▪ To remove water from fermented alcohol on this scale would require quite uneconomic amounts of energy.
▪ Vast subsidies were going to uneconomic nationalized industries and local government was heavily overspending.
▪ Was it not uneconomic to employ older workers whose apparent competence simply masked inevitably growing incapacity?
Wiktionary
uneconomic
a. financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss making
WordNet
uneconomic
adj. wasteful of resources [syn: uneconomical]
Usage examples of "uneconomic".
It had also, paradoxically, sent the oil-tanker business into a seven-year decline, with millions of tons of tanker space partially built, laid up, useless, uneconomic, loss-making.