| 单词 | uneconomical |
| 释义 | uneconomical adjective (alsouneconomic)uk/ˌʌniːkəˈnɒmɪkəl/ususing too muchmoneyor too manyresourcesandunlikelyto make aprofit: Ethanolproducersareseeingtheirprofitmarginssqueezedandproductionmay wellbecomeuneconomical. (it is) uneconomical to do sthWithoilpriceshigh,companieshave beenreturningtoreservesthat were uneconomical toextractduring theyearsoflowprices. Examplesofuneconomicaluneconomical Elimination is implausible; reduction isuneconomicaland may be unethical. From theCambridge English Corpus Feature economy in sound systems 329 space, but makes anuneconomicaluse of features. From theCambridge English Corpus As a result, crop production on these soils becomes extremely difficult, yields are very low and cultivation becomesuneconomical. From theCambridge English Corpus The system of official support and premiums was bound to encourageuneconomical, speculative undertakings, even when conditions for normal profitability did not exist. From theCambridge English Corpus As an alternative to this, the notion of the collective unconscious seems both evidentially lacking and strangelyuneconomical. From theCambridge English Corpus It would be veryuneconomicalgenetically and inflexible behaviorally if genes were to specify large numbers of (typically species-specific) fixed action patterns. From theCambridge English Corpus It thus seems a bituneconomicalnot to relate the two constructions. From theCambridge English Corpus Failures not only areuneconomical, but also can have an unsafe outcome. From theCambridge English Corpus Their usually not-so-optimal size (and inherently their portability) coupled with their price tag render this kind of interface simplyuneconomical. From theCambridge English Corpus She criticized existing schools for girls for their small size, which, she argued, made them inefficient anduneconomical. From theCambridge English Corpus In practice, most often the worse case implemented in control law does not take place and the resulting large control inputs become unnecessary anduneconomical. From theCambridge English Corpus When they did work, they worked by rule of thumb; their methods of production were careless anduneconomical; and their working arrangements arbitrary, slipshod and unscientific. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, transformation of imperative programs to single assignment forms can lead to anuneconomicalblow-out of the amount of computation required to evaluate so-called oracle functions. From theCambridge English Corpus Even on the most favourable estimate of probable traffic, the provision of customs facilities would entail theuneconomicalemployment of customs staff. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Thirdly, it is grosslyuneconomicalto 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 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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