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  • 61unproductive — adj 1. fruitless, unfruitful, unyielding, issueless; childless, sterile, barren, abortive, infe cund, unprolific, fallow, Bot. acarpous, impotent, effete; dead, dry, arid. 2. useless, futile, vain, idle, unavailing, bootless; ineffectual,… …

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  • 62unsuccessful — adj 1. vain, futile, useless, unavailing, bootless; ineffectual, inefficacious, nugatory, worthless, inutile; fruitless, unproductive, abortive, stillborn, barren, sterile, impotent; unprofitable, unremunerative, ungainful, losing. 2. unfortunate …

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  • 63land-poor — land′ poor adj. in need of ready money while owning much unremunerative land • Etymology: 1870–75, amer …

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  • 64lean — 1. v. & n. v. (past and past part. leaned or leant) 1 intr. & tr. (often foll. by across, back, over, etc.) be or place in a sloping position; incline from the perpendicular. 2 intr. & tr. (foll. by against, on, upon) rest or cause to rest for… …

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  • 65un|fruit´ful|ness — un|fruit|ful «uhn FROOT fuhl», adjective. 1. not fruitful; producing no offspring; barren: »an unfruitful marriage. 2. Figurative. producing nothing worthwhile; not productive; unremunerative: »an unfruitful line of inquiry. SYNONYM(S):… …

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  • 66un|fruit´ful|ly — un|fruit|ful «uhn FROOT fuhl», adjective. 1. not fruitful; producing no offspring; barren: »an unfruitful marriage. 2. Figurative. producing nothing worthwhile; not productive; unremunerative: »an unfruitful line of inquiry. SYNONYM(S):… …

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  • 67un|fruit|ful — «uhn FROOT fuhl», adjective. 1. not fruitful; producing no offspring; barren: »an unfruitful marriage. 2. Figurative. producing nothing worthwhile; not productive; unremunerative: »an unfruitful line of inquiry. SYNONYM(S): unproductive.… …

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  • 68un|pay|a|ble — «uhn PAY uh buhl», adjective. 1. that cannot be paid: »The picture often turns out to be a flop, leaving a wake of unpaid and unpayable debts (Atlantic). 2. yielding no return; unprofitable; unremunerative: »The wildcat oil well was abandoned as… …

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  • 69AZEFF, YEVNO FISHELEVICH — (1869–1918), agent of the czarist secret police and simultaneously a leader of the Russian social revolutionary movement. Azeff was born in Lyskovo, Russia, into a poor family and studied in Rostov on Don until the age of 21. He wandered from one …

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  • 70ECONOMIC HISTORY — This article is arranged according to the following outline: first temple period exile and restoration second temple period talmudic era muslim middle ages medieval christendom economic doctrines early modern period sephardim and ashkenazim… …

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