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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uneconomical
adjective
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▪ And none of these solutions addresses the underlying problem: jobs are an inefficient and uneconomical way to divide work.
▪ At least, I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end.
▪ Despite extensive flight testing and development, the project was considered to be uneconomical and was shelved in 1975.
▪ Most stockbrokers charge a minimum commission which makes small deals very uneconomical.
▪ Often these operators do one-off projects as these can be uneconomical for larger outfits.
▪ That reduces the need for repeated herbicide applications that could make the process uneconomical for farmers.
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uneconomical

a. Not economical

WordNet
uneconomical

  1. adj. inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power" [syn: wasteful]

  2. wasteful of resources [syn: uneconomic]

Usage examples of "uneconomical".

Survey Service been a commercial shipping line the refitting operations would have been uneconomical, with swarms of assorted technicians working around the clock and a wasteful use of materials.

Since the guards were prohibited from speaking to him, all communications were carried out in uneconomical and sometimes comic mime.

Soon the amount of energy used for killing must have proven to be uneconomical, and they turned to other methods.

The car was ugly, impractical, ostentatious, uneconomical and badly designed for city driving, but it was expensive.

The problem is, it costs so much to ship hogs that it becomes uneconomical.

It seems obvious to us that you were unable to make the sanction target reveal himself, and so you took the sure, if grimly uneconomical, path of sanctioning all three men.