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Definition: Uneconomic |
UneconomicAdjective1. Wasteful of resources. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: UneconomicSynonym: uneconomical (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: uneconomic customer (post & telecom), uneconomic services, uneconomic site (building & civil engineering, economics). |
Crosswords: Uneconomic |
| Specialty definitions using "uneconomic": explosively anchored rockbolt ♦ overdevelopment ♦ Predatory price ♦ stranded costs ♦ unavoidable net losses, uneconomic customer, uneconomic services. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The activities of those 14 and 15 years of age are so restricted as to be uneconomic (no night or hazardous work and limited hours). (references) | |
The Korean government has also tried to break the unhealthy linkages between government, banks, and the chaebols which impeded competition and market access, both in Korea and in other markets, and resulted in excessive debt, over-capacity and uneconomic investments. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chad | Base metals, copper, silver and zinc have been discovered, but are uneconomic to exploit. (references) |
Trade | Ukraine | The project will (i) compensate redundant miners and ease social tensions through the provision of statutory social benefits; (ii) establish efficient procedures for closing redundant and uneconomic mines and avoiding serious environmental impact; (iii) enable miners from mines that are to be closed to enter the regional labor market and find new permanent or temporary employment in non-mining sectors; and (iv) provide public information, auditing, training and technical assistance. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Uneconomic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uneconomic" is used about 147 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 147 | 25,998 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "uneconomic": uneconomic customer ♦ uneconomic services. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "uneconomic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разточителен (extravagant, improvident, lavish, luxurious, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, sumptuous, superfluous, thriftless, unsparing, unthrifty, wanton, wasteful), неикономически, неикономичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kannattamaton (unprofitable, unremunerative), epätaloudellinen (uneconomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unwirtschaftlich (uneconomical, wasteful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασύμφοροσ (impolitic, inexpedient, unadvisable, unprofitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ráfizetéses (in the red, to be in the red, uneconomical), nem takarékos (uneconomical), nem közgazdasági, nem jövedelmező (husky), nem gazdaságos (uneconomical, unprofitable), nem gazdasági, gazdaságtalan (uneconomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | poco redditizio, antieconomico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | economicunay neekonomski (uneconomical), neekonomičan (uneconomical). (various references) antieconómico (wasteful). (various references) olönsam (unprofitable), oekonomisk (uneconomical). (various references) savurgan (consumptive, extravagant, inefficient, lavish, prodigal, profuse, thriftless, uneconomical, unthrifty, wasteful), ekonomik olmayan (uneconomical). (various references) không tinh tế không có lợi, không có lời (unpayable, unprofitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "uneconomic": uneconomical. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "uneconomic" (pronounced une'kunÄ"mik) |
| 9 | -n e' k u n Ä" m i k | noneconomic. |
| 8 | -e' k u n Ä" m i k | economic, microeconomic, socioeconomic. |
| 7 | -k u n Ä" m i k | macroeconomic. |
| 6 | -u n Ä" m i k | autonomic, ergonomic. |
| 5 | -n Ä" m i k | gastronomic. |
| 4 | -Ä" m i k | atomic, comic, diatomic, monatomic, subatomic, tragicomic. |
| 3 | -m i k | academic, aerodynamic, anemic, bulimic, cataclysmic, ceramic, cosmic, cytoplasmic, dynamic, electrodynamic, endemic, endothermic, epidemic, exothermic, formic, gimmick, gnomic, hemodynamic, hypodermic, hypoglycemic, hypothalamic, logarithmic, mimic, nonacademic, ophthalmic, organismic, pandemic, panoramic, patronymic, photodynamic, polemic, psychodynamic, rhythmic, samek, seismic, systemic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-u" | |
-2 letters: economic. | |
-3 letters: uncomic. | |
-4 letters: conine, conium, income, ionone, muonic, neumic, noncom, nuncio. | |
-5 letters: cecum, comic, conic, conin, cumin, ennui, mince, monie, mucin, nomen, nomoi, nonce, numen, onion, onium, ounce, union. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-u" | |
+2 letters: councilwomen, uneconomical. | |
+3 letters: meningococcus. | |
+5 letters: excommunication. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 65 63 6F 6E 6F 6D 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. . -.-. --- -. --- -- .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101111 01101101 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n e c o n o m i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0065 0063 006F 006E 006F 006D 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807169818081797569 |
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