uneconomicadjective
uk/ʌnˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk//ʌnˌek.əˈnɒm.ɪk/us/ʌnˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk//ʌnˌek.əˈnɑː.mɪk/also uneconomical,Uneconomic businesses and industries are not making enough profit or are losing money:
They closed the factory, saying it was uneconomic.
The price of oil dropped so low that it become uneconomic to drill.
Uneconomic processes or activities use more of something than is necessary, causing it to be wasted:
A large room sometimes represents an uneconomic use of space.
Synonym
wasteful
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wasting
- boondoggle
- dissipate
- down the drain idiom
- fritter
- fritter sth away
- lose
- piss sth away
- prodigal
- profligate
- reinvent
- reinvent the wheel idiom
- throw
- toss
- toss sth away
- wastage
- waste
- waste not, want not idiom
- wasted
- wasteful
- waster
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