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US
/ˌənpɹəˈdəktɪv/
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[ UK /ʌnpɹədˈʌktɪv/ ]
[ UK /ʌnpɹədˈʌktɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not producing desired results
the talks between labor and management were unproductive -
not producing or capable of producing
elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries
How To Use unproductive In A Sentence
- In this way, unproductive life - life before and after work or rather life in excess of work - is recaptured in the reproductive margins of the normative household, redelivered in other words to the ends of proper social production and the reproduction of the time of labour. Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
- To suggest that all unproductive consumption is solely capitalist personal consumption is to go beyond the bounds of credibility.
- The discovery of a pocket of cassiterite here in 1915 created a small flurry of interest in tin; however, further exploration was unproductive.
- But in this present world we have entire nations that see the woman, her nature, and her femininity as worthless, unimportant, purposeless, and unproductive. Women must ask whose thinking is that?
- Walton provides a chart with all the instances p.48, and suggests that the evidence points to the term denoting unproductiveness rather than lack of material form. Review of The Lost World of Genesis One, Part Four
- Their land was unproductive because their goal was to farm areas that were waste or common. The English Civil War: A People's History
- Whoever contributes nothing directly or indirectly to production, is an unproductive consumer.
- The second aspect of contradiction within Bukharin's equations is that between accumulation and unproductive consumption.
- Introducing salt-tolerant crops such as salicornia could utilise millions of hectares of unproductive arid land while conserving valuable freshwater resources and providing both material and economic returns to local inhabitants. Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
- One - quarter of the country is reckoned as unproductive.