Usually means: Not profitable for the cost.
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  1. uneconomic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. uneconomic: Merriam-Webster
  3. uneconomic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. uneconomic: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. uneconomic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. uneconomic: Dictionary.com
  10. uneconomic: Rhymezone
  11. uneconomic: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ adjective:  Financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss-making.

Similar:
uneconomical, wasteful, unprofitable, profitless, nonefficient, wasted, noneconomical, improfitable, nonprofitable, subprofitable, more...

Opposite:
economical, cost-effective, efficient

Types:
free rider, public good, externality, market failure, externalities, public goods, more...

Phrases:
uneconomic growth, more...

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Similar:
uneconomical, wasteful, unprofitable, profitless, nonefficient, wasted, noneconomical, improfitable, nonprofitable, subprofitable, more...

Opposite:
economical, cost-effective, efficient

Types:
free rider, public good, externality, market failure, externalities, public goods, more...

Phrases:
uneconomic growth, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     brown,     olive,     rust, more...



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