inefficiency
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4.2
- noun
- /ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənsi/
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ineficiencia
- Moreover, because of its relative newness, there are serious inefficiencies in its application.
- economic inefficiency
- bureaucratic inefficiency
- cost of inefficiency
And so that shows one type of inefficiency from having like unclear borders.
- And so that shows one type of inefficiency from having like unclear borders.
- She's she's also exposed government inefficiencies and failure on spending and so on.
- We know they cause inefficiencies, We know they cause deadweight losses, OK.
- What I've had it with is the inefficiency of people in the self checkout line.
- This monstrous inefficiency helps to explain why the country exports so little.
- But I had never realized as you described, that so much energy was lost just due to inefficiencies from point A to sort of point Z.
- Like, yes, in the long term, you want inefficiency to be destroyed and efficiency to be rewarded.
- He wasn't willing to learn and grow because his success has blinded him exactly to his inefficiencies.
- And we realized in, in today's stock world, you can't, there's all these inefficiencies in trading.
- Arbitrage exists as a result of market inefficiencies.
- Because if you were to exhale more carbon than actually needed, now we're in a state of inefficiency.
- I mean, the companies that are growing right now that are solving inefficiencies in our society with software have just begun.
- Hannah Rent was saying there will always be inefficiencies, there will be resistance, there will be divergences.
- Grace instructed his employees to leave no stone unturned in their search to root out inefficiency.
Examples
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But massive inefficiency and corruption within our regulatory bodies is why we are here today.
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Many companies are trying to reduce inefficiency in their operations to save costs.
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And in either case, what we removed is an inefficiency in transmission of the signal.
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The inefficiency, as you call it, is how we make our profit.
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The nature of the inefficiency of taxation can be illustrated by way of a simple example.
Academic text (2017) -
Our structural setup creates an inefficiency within our talent market.
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We identified inefficiencies and worked out a quality improvement plan I believe can be met.
Fiction book (2000) -
This monstrous inefficiency helps to explain why the country exports so little.
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This is a prime example of the kind of inefficiency and apathy that is destroying this school.
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I mean, the companies that are growing right now that are solving inefficiencies in our society with software have just begun.
Synonyms
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5.4
Not able to produce the result you want
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8.7
Unable to produce the wanted result
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9.1
A lack of ability to make plans or actions produce the wanted result
The state of not producing the intended result
Not doing much useful work or making progress
Antonyms
How Efficient
Surface Forms
Morphology
inefficiency = inefficient (transparent) = in + efficient + cy
This is a regular noun formation from the adjective 'inefficient' meaning the state or quality of being inefficient.
Etymology
Inefficiency is made of in- meaning 'not' and efficient meaning 'working well', just like the shorter word efficient you already know. So inefficiency is the state of 'not working well' or not doing a job effectively.