White elephant
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white-elephant-173-17935330
title:
White elephant
text:
A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage, it is a metaphor used to describe an object, construction project, scheme, business venture, facility, etc. considered expensive but without equivalent utility or value relative to its capital (acquisition) and/or operational (maintenance) costs.
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Idiom for impractical possessions that are expensive to maintain but cannot be disposed of
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant
date created:
2001-04-05T20:07:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T13:51:55Z
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