UNPRODUCTIVE

unproductive

(adjective) not producing desired results; “the talks between labor and management were unproductive”

unproductive

(adjective) not producing or capable of producing; “elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

unproductive (comparative more unproductive, superlative most unproductive)

Not productive; useless; fruitless.

(linguistics, of affixes, mechanisms of word formation, etc) No longer used to produce new words (see examples).

Synonyms

• nonproductive

• unyieldly

Source: Wiktionary



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There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.

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