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/ənˌɛkənˈɑmɪkəl/ Listen

Uneconomical

adjective

Inefficient in use of time and effort and materials. Synonym: wasteful. "Wasteful duplication of effort" , "Uneconomical ebb and flow of power"

Wasteful of resources. Synonym: uneconomic.

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"Uneconomical" Quotes from Famous Books

... consumers the full business value of the service they render. With the growing cost of living, this has become a matter of urgent importance to the towns. In the cheaper-food campaign which began in the late fall of 1909, voices are heard calling the farmers to account for their uneconomical methods, while here and there organisations of consumers are endeavouring to solve the problem to their own satisfaction by acquiring land and raising upon it the produce ...

— The Rural Life Problem of the United States - Notes of an Irish Observer • Horace Curzon Plunkett

... me that you have found your equal, and she shall be yours in the twinkling of an eye. I shouldn't even allow love-letters to intervene—you are so colossal. Your Titanic emotions overflow into hundreds of pages. You are the most uneconomical ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

Words linked to "Uneconomical" : uneconomic, wasteful, inefficient