Meanings of as unproductive in English

The French economists consider all labour employed in manufactures as unproductive.

Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought.

That only made things worse and the day turned out as unproductive as all the previous ones.

Bord na Mona industrialised peat production in the 1950s by putting to use what were then regarded as unproductive wastelands.

There is no such thing as unproductive employment, so long as people are prepared to buy the service you are offering.

The rank forests of the tropics are as unproductive of human aliment as the less luxuriant woods of the temperate zone.

Wetlands and margins were often regarded as unproductive and had been drained and converted into land for agricultural, commercial and housing development.

The rice-fields for some miles around resembled English stubbles late in autumn, and were almost as unproductive of bird or insect life.

Everybody was bound to fail, for San Lorenzo was as unproductive as an equal area in the Sahara or the Polar Icecap.

There is an awful sense that the operatives are redrawing reality to justify behaviour that is as unproductive as it is morally indefensible.

The country is here as unproductive as near the coast; but water, having rather a bitter and brackish taste, can be procured by digging wells.