The word "uncompetitive" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or something that is not as competitive as it might otherwise be. For example, "The small town's job market is very uncompetitive, with only a few positions available."
These don't tend to add up to much, and if the card has an uncompetitive interest rate, you may be better off choosing a cheaper card and making donations separately.
Bloated public payrolls, stupid subsidies for uncompetitive industries, underinvestment in science, technology and education, corruption, tax exemption for the professional classes etc – you can't afford that kind of laissez-faire unless you periodically devaluate your currency.
This is a serious problem when it results in long, uncompetitive series.
Europe is creating an increasingly uncompetitive business environment for small businesses.
Pre-crisis inflows set off property and wage booms, leaving behind uncompetitive economies when they receded.
At best, the thermal efficiency of geothermal power generation is around 23%—about half that of a coal-fired power station.This does not mean geothermal electricity is uncompetitive.
Most farmers, tending tiny plots on a part-time basis, are uncompetitive.
It is instead expending its energies on differentiating itself from them: Mr Miliband's carping about the high cost of living, with little mention of the uncompetitive, debt-laded economy underlying it, is an example of this.
But BCG's Xavier Mosquet reckons that eventually China will accept that it is better to have a strong foreign-owned industry creating well-paid jobs than to prop up uncompetitive national champions.
High transport costs have made them uncompetitive, and their land is not well-suited to other crops.
But if they are to be profitable and survive in the long run, Mr Sarkozy must shake off his obsession with keeping uncompetitive assembly plants open as a supposed symbol of national might.
