| 词汇 | uneconomical |
| 释义 | uneconomical adjective (alsouneconomic)uk /ˌʌniːkəˈnɒmɪkəl/us using too much money or too many resources and unlikely to make a profit: Ethanol producers are seeing their profit margins squeezed and production may well become uneconomical. (it is) uneconomical to do sthWith oil prices high, companies have been returning to reserves that were uneconomical to extract during the years of low prices. Examples of uneconomicaluneconomical Feature economy in sound systems 329 space, but makes an uneconomical use of features. As a result, crop production on these soils becomes extremely difficult, yields are very low and cultivation becomes uneconomical. The system of official support and premiums was bound to encourage uneconomical, speculative undertakings, even when conditions for normal profitability did not exist. As an alternative to this, the notion of the collective unconscious seems both evidentially lacking and strangely uneconomical. It would be very uneconomical genetically and inflexible behaviorally if genes were to specify large numbers of (typically species-specific) fixed action patterns. It thus seems a bit uneconomical not to relate the two constructions. Failures not only are uneconomical, but also can have an unsafe outcome. Their usually not-so-optimal size (and inherently their portability) coupled with their price tag render this kind of interface simply uneconomical. She criticized existing schools for girls for their small size, which, she argued, made them inefficient and uneconomical. In practice, most often the worse case implemented in control law does not take place and the resulting large control inputs become unnecessary and uneconomical. When they did work, they worked by rule of thumb; their methods of production were careless and uneconomical; and their working arrangements arbitrary, slipshod and unscientific. For example, transformation of imperative programs to single assignment forms can lead to an uneconomical blow-out of the amount of computation required to evaluate so-called oracle functions. Even on the most favourable estimate of probable traffic, the provision of customs facilities would entail the uneconomical employment of customs staff. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thirdly, it is grossly uneconomical to continue to expend such an enormous ambulance mileage in taking both in-patients and out-patients out of the district. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If buildings are to be provided in spite of the cost being prohibitive you at once place the whole transaction upon an uneconomical basis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of uneconomical These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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