0 using something in a careless way and causing some of it to be wasted: --
1 being a bad use of something valuable that you have only a limited amount of: --
2 not being careful about the amount of resources used for something: --
Presumably the machinery for release-ribbons, molecular motors, tethering proteins, etc-is energetically expensive to maintain and bulky, and so an overcapacity for release would be wasteful.
We suspect that selection processes are able to produce genuine novelty and organization only because they are so incredibly wasteful.
All three selection processes are also incredibly wasteful and inefficient.
Discovering these preferences is taken to be a wasteful and inefficient activity.
The considerable costs of her earlier treatment had been futile, distressing, and wasteful.
Our critical response was to the transient and ephemeral nature of shopping which we saw as wasteful and frivolous.
This largest-sized 3 approach is potentially wasteful but gives flexibility and helps to avoid garbage collection.
Parasites and parasitoids often shut down host investment in reproduction which is wasteful from the parasite's point of view.
