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Webster 1913 Edition

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

Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing;

as,

inefficient

workmen; an

inefficient

administrator.

Noun.

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

inefficiency ‎(plural inefficiencies)

degree or measure of someone or something's lack of efficiency or effectiveness