0 not producing very much --
1 not useful, or not creating anything: --
We wasted three days in unproductive discussions.
2 not producing goods, crops, profits, etc. in a satisfactory amount: --
3 not achieving good results: --
Sales supervisors can help salespersons convert unproductive time into productive time.
unproductive labour/staff/workers Falling prices forced companies to cut unproductive workers.
unproductive discussions/meetings 70% of managers said they could save 10% of their time if they could avoid unproductive meetings.
Almost all of the respondents were retired and accustomed to being regarded as ' unproductive ' by the general public.
The largest historical mystery is how one lexical class becomes productive and the other remains unproductive.
The proportion of participants not reporting any unproductive days was 46 percent in the usual physiotherapy and 57 percent in the brief intervention group.
Besides deviant, the more popular stereotype of the convent was that it was both unnatural and unproductive.
Thus, the extant literature on moderators of treatment effects following the aforementioned line of inquiry has been relatively unproductive to date.
First, it reflected a tendency to view evacuees as socially unproductive and undeserving members of the polity.
The scholar is compared favourably with that other notoriously frivolous and unproductive cultural figure, the poet.
We have in mind a government where some of the bureaucrats use international aid for private unproductive consumption or to settle a slush fund.
