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uneconomic

uh ne kuh no mik

  • s  wasteful of resources

  • The decision to forgo future earnings is clearly uneconomic.
  • Meanwhile, largely untapped petroleum pools believed to lie beneath western China's desolate Tarim Basin are uneconomic to drill, even with prices at $50 a barrel.
  • Pennies are uneconomic and inconvenient.
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  • Warren Truss in The Australian
    Qantas has already slashed services to my electorate and so it is not going to have much effect there. Qantas has been cutting services in a number of places, and clearly they are not going to run services where they are uneconomic,Mr Truss said.
  • Sol Trujillo in The Australian
    Even if you build it, Mr Trujillo said, "it's not a guarantee that it's going to work, so you have to know what you're doing, and this is likely to be low-margin revenue as well, with any third-party build commencing first in the uneconomic rural...

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