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Перевод: wasteful

[прилагательное]
расточительный; нерасчетливый

Тезаурус:

1. However, many visitors to the Locks have gone away without realising that it was also the location for one of the more fascinating engineering feats of the canal era, an "Inclined Plane" which lifted boats up the steep Foxton escarpment on the Grand Union Canal, enabling them to avoid the climb through the narrow locks, which was both wasteful of water and time-consuming.
2. In the last few years there has been an increasing realization that many modern production methods are not only very wasteful but probably also unnecessary
3. We shall seek fundamental changes in the wasteful Common Agricultural Policy.
4. The paper spoke in general terms about the lack of prewar co-operation, except on technical matters, and the need for some form of international collaboration to eliminate wasteful competition.
5. But Labour's shadow education secretary Mr Jack Straw said since only three of the 20 were in operation on the target date "why doesn't he recognise the CTC programme as an immoral and wasteful failure?"
6. Thus the general pattern is that any place in England and Wales (other than the London Boroughs and some Metropolitan Districts) has at least two councils and possibly three, a situation which many consider to be wasteful in terms of administrative costs.
7. If the stock in these categories is to be revised and replenished often enough at each service point to keep its readers supplied with fresh material, then buying of new titles will be at an extremely wasteful level - since few of the titles withdrawn would be out-of-date or physically obsolete at the time of their withdrawal.
8. I wonder what medical opinion is of this wasteful practice?
9. Carrying out a local community profile should ensure that there is no wasteful duplication and it will often uncover gaps or a place for cooperation.
10. To rush in and quantify a situation which one does not understand is wasteful of the time of both researchers and informants.
11. Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as "wasteful".
12. The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants: large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches.
13. Local government is seen as slow, wasteful, obstructive.