Uneconomic

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  • adjective. financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss making
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  • adjective. wasteful of resources
  • Word Usage
    "Some would result from the ability of a number of foreign companies, currently forced by the tariff to maintain uneconomic manufacturing facilities here, to close down their plants, leaving the remainder far better placed to achieve competitive production."