What does uneconomic mean?
Uneconomic means Financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss-making..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss-making..
Since the modernisation plan was launched, the policy of withdrawing uneconomic services has been continued.
Barker believed that evidence was emerging that a "solid proportion" of operations were "grossly uneconomic", and that no amount of improvement in equipment would make them viable. He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination".
Use uneconomic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Uneconomic means Financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss-making..
Common synonyms include wasteful, uneconomical.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Since the modernisation plan was launched, the policy of withdrawing uneconomic services has been continued.
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