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Meanings of unworkable in English

Not capable of being carried out or put into practice.

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Usage of unworkable in English
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Restricting traffic to specific destinations is unworkable, especially in large enterprise networks.
Reuters
2
Canada's military says the Liberals' insistence that combat missions end is unworkable.
Reuters
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The fact that this would be unworkable did not occur to anybody.
The Irish Times
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Campaigners against Scottish independence say it would be unrealistic, costly and unworkable.
Reuters
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Duncan Smith's universal credit has been unworkable and unravelling for some time.
The Guardian
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The coroner has not made any recommendations, saying they may be unworkable.
Radio NZ
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There is nothing defiant or desirable about unworkable policies and undeliverable promises.
The Guardian
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Or she could call an election herself, declaring parliament to be unworkable.
The Guardian
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This is a final tribute to an unworkable notion of the epic.
The Guardian
10
It is specialists who safeguard assemblies from passing ill-advised or unworkable measures.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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And himself, somehow out of it all afterward, with his car unworkable.
Foundation and Empire
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But this European Federation is as intolerable as it will be unworkable.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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The VF's grand showing, though, is likely to make this coalition unworkable.
The South African
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However, the government in London has said that would be unworkable.
Reuters
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Its plan was, however, rejected as unworkable by the UK government.
Reuters
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Labour said the proposal was unworkable given the complexity of current tariff structures.
The Guardian
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