单词 | inefficiency |
释义 | inefficiencyn. Want of efficiency; inability or failure to accomplish something; ineffectiveness, inefficient character. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > inefficacy weakness1526 uneffectualness1598 inefficacy1623 inefficaciousness1646 ineffectualness1650 ineffectuality1670 inefficacity1721 inefficiency1749 inefficience1797 effeteness1862 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 20 July (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1373 Venice..owes its security to its neutrality and inefficacy. a1761 Bp. E. Law Consid. State World ii. (R.) Numerous texts affirm this total insensibility and inefficiency of all such entities in the most absolute terms. 1817 B. R. Haydon in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 474 Relapsing for a time to languid inefficiency. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. viii. 504 The scandalous inefficiency of the Government of Lewis XV. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1749 |
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