Translation for '
wasteful' from English to Portuguese
ADJ | wasteful | more wasteful | most wasteful | |
SYNO | uneconomical | wasteful |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- Benefits do accrue to a seemingly wasteful design for ventilation that includes dead space.
- The necessity of these conformational changes prevents the wasteful hydrolysis of ATP.
- Since carbon rejection is generally inefficient and wasteful, catalytic hydrocracking is preferred in most cases.
- Ayotte offered a variety of legislation to eliminate wasteful spending and duplicate or unnecessary programs.
- The DSF has been described as "woefully wasteful, or at least grossly mismanaged". It was dissolved in 2009.
- During the 2019 election, Owen campaigned on reducing tax and regulatory burdens, combating public corruption by increasing government transparency, and cutting wasteful spending.
- Otherwise it is called "non-wasteful" (NW). In the example cake, an allocation giving all the cake to Alice is NW, but an allocation giving all the cake to George is wasteful since the lemon part is "wasted".
- Ticketmaster secretly partners with scalpers to drive up prices for consumers. Economists characterize the secondary market in tickets as socially wasteful rent-seeking.
- FirstNet was characterized as "the most wasteful post-9/11 initiative" by the journalist Steven Brill.
- In all of them he was an aggressive critic of wasteful government spending.
- Attempts to improve Afghanistan's cashmere industry by importing Italian goats in the 2010s have been criticized as wasteful.
- Amid allegations of wasteful and possibly fraudulent expenses during his tenure at FMCS, Cohen announced his retirement from the agency, effective December 31, 2013.
- State budget deficits, furloughs, and wasteful outsourcing are among the many challenges facing PECG and the members.
- In 2005, Citizens Against Government Waste criticized an earmark for ART from the United States Congress as wasteful spending.
- Unfortunately some DSL services require the use of wasteful LLC headers with PPPoE and do not allow the more efficient VC-MUX option.
- Under the Code of Civil Procedure section 526(a), any individual taxpayer or group of taxpayers may seek a judgment restraining wasteful government expenditures.
- The above argument was somewhat wasteful; in fact the same theorem holds for "H" = 4.
- The Carnot cycle is the most efficient possible engine, not only because of the (trivial) absence of friction and other incidental wasteful processes; the main reason is that it assumes no conduction of heat between parts of the engine at different temperatures.
- The Comptroller and Auditor General has pointed out wasteful expenditure of [...] on earlier unapproved corridors.
- This can however be wasteful as each [...] and [...] typically have to maintain the heap property.
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