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Webster 1913 Edition


Inefficiency

Inˊef-fi′cien-cy

,
Noun.
The quality of being inefficient; lack of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity;
as, he was discharged from his position for
inefficiency
.
2.
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing;
as,
inefficient
workmen; an
inefficient
administrator.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inefficiency

INEFFI'CIENCY

,
Noun.
[in and efficiency.] Want of power or exertion of power to produce the effect; inefficacy.

Definition 2024


inefficiency

inefficiency

English

Noun

inefficiency (plural inefficiencies)

  1. Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.

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