uneconomic
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Regulatory and permitting constraints make new landfills uneconomic.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
“California’s decision to keep this uneconomic and costly resource open is bad for taxpayers and worse for ratepayers,” Beard said in a statement to The Times.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026
Bright said $200 billion in purchases isn’t “large enough to put significant downward pressure on rates, and buying at uneconomic levels eventually runs its course,” he told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
Still, they warned that “it does raise questions on long-term implications with potentially uneconomic projects being subsidized into production.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
Between the turn of the century and the mid-1980s, for example, the average landholding decreased from 18.2 to 12.2 acres, a size that was agriculturally uneconomic and that overpopulated the rural areas.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.
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