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adj. Not yielding or producing: nonproductive land.

adj. Not engaged in the direct production of goods: nonproductive personnel.

n. A person who produces no useful work.

adj. Not productive.

adj. not directly productive.

Lacking the power of producing; not fertile.

Unproductive financially; not yielding revenue; unprofitable, as a mine or a farm.

In political economics, not causing or tending to cause an increase in the quantity or quality of things of value; not causing commodities to possess exchangeable value: as, non-productive labor.

n. A person or industry that does not cause an increase in the quantity, quality, or exchangeable value of commodities.

adj. not directly productive

"IHS Global Insight economist Brian Bethune calls it the gold trap: Investors are parking their funds in nonproductive assets like gold that undermine the Fed 's efforts to simulate activity."

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nonproductive loan    nonproductive cough   

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conductive    constructive    destructive    instructive    obstructive    photoconductive    productive    reconstructive    reproductive    seductive   

croupy    dyslexic    agonal    two-proton    ill-digested    hypertrophic    throat-clearing    chesty    noninflationary    chronical