Significados de nonproductive em inglês

Manpower's limited; which of us can keep up a nonproductive surveillance indefinitely?

Turned out my suggestion about Beasley, though a good one, was nonproductive.

I thought about how much my head hurt, which was nonproductive.

He isn't in jail, of course; Mars can't afford that kind of nonproductive luxury.

Her encounter with Algernon Barrett about a month ago had been contentious and, essentially, nonproductive.

The data suggest a significant stabilization of nonproductive complexes formed by binding of glucose to the galactosylated enzyme.

Added to them would be all the nonproductive and semi-productive citizens and those who volunteered for the projects.

Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society's energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

As I have said time and again, the city itself is nonproductive, and cannot supply its own food.

Light-colored nonproductive earths of the North growing skimpy conifer trees or poor crops don't contain very many microorganisms.

Additionally, normal economic activity was replaced by the nonproductive pursuit of pennies attending meetings and volunteering to protest or recruit.

Editing may also facilitate efficient B cell production by salvaging cells with nonproductive light chain (L chain) rearrangements.

Brutally terminate nonproductive meetings.

The cells retain low copy numbers of viral DNA; the infections are nonproductive and noncytolytic but can occasionally produce infectious virus.

Because myeloid-derived suppressor cells produce interleukin-10, we explored whether it was involved in orchestrating the nonproductive immune response that facilitates biofilm formation.

Without it, much of the Cloud Ark's population would gradually have been rendered nonproductive as their eyeglasses were broken or wore out.