uneconomic

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Etymology

From un- +‎ economic.

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uneconomic (comparative more uneconomic, superlative most uneconomic)

  1. Financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss-making.
    • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:
      Barker believed that evidence was emerging that a "solid proportion" of operations were "grossly uneconomic", and that no amount of improvement in equipment would make them viable. He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination".

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