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Uneconomic   /ənˌɛkənˈɑmɪk/   Listen
Uneconomic

adjective
1.
Wasteful of resources.  Synonym: uneconomical.






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"Uneconomic" Quotes from Famous Books



... neglect of the possibilities of flood plain management, which undoubtedly in the long run—as in the long past—will prove to be the most valuable tool for reducing these damages, for it will bring about a restriction on ill-advised and uneconomic encroachment in ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... I have heard, a theory that small holdings of land were uneconomic. He evicted his tenants and made large grass farms. Nowadays we hold the opposite opinion. We are evicting large tenants and establishing small holdings. Our grandsons, I dare say, will go back again to the large farms. I explained ...
— The Red Hand of Ulster • George A. Birmingham

... the English and by Themselves Anomalies of Irish Life The New Movement—Position of Nationalists and Unionists in it North and South The Question of Rural Life Economic Side of the Question Grazing versus Tillage Peasant Organisation to be Supplemented by State-Aid Uneconomic Holdings too Prevalent Remedies Proposed Salvation not by Agriculture Alone Rural Industries and the Irish Home Reasons for Arrested Development of Home Life Inter-Dependence of the Sentimental and Practical in Ireland Outlines of ...
— Ireland In The New Century • Horace Plunkett



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