nonproductive

adjective

Not yielding or producing.

adjective

Not engaged in the direct production of goods.

noun

A person who produces no useful work.

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.

noun

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

adjective

not directly productive.

adjective

Not productive.

adjective

not directly productive