Unproductive

(adj.) not producing desired results; 'the talks between labor and management were unproductive' .

(adj.) not producing or capable of producing; 'elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries' .

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• The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In the one way, besides, this expense maintains productive, in the other unproductive hands. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Mercantile stock is equally barren and unproductive with manufacturing stock. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It can never be the interest of the unproductive class to oppress the other two classes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A visit to the boy suggested itself as a means of gleaning new particulars; though it might be quite unproductive. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The superior produce of the one class, however, does not, render the other barren or unproductive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The sovereign, for example, with all the officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The whole, or almost the whole public revenue is, in most countries, employed in maintaining unproductive hands. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They might both maintain indifferently, either productive or unproductive hands. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is, therefore, altogether a barren and unproductive expense. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The rent of land and the profits of stock are everywhere, therefore, the principal sources from which unproductive hands derive their subsistence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The letter was not unproductive. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It would depress productive labour, by encouraging too hastily that labour which is altogether barren and unproductive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The unproductive class, however, is not only useful, but greatly useful, to the other two classes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The rent of houses is paid for the use of an unproductive subject. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The former as it produces a value, may be called productive, the latter, unproductive labour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But, upon this account alone, the denomination of barren or unproductive should seem to be very improperly applied to it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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