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Definition of inefficient in English: inefficientadjective ɪnɪˈfɪʃ(ə)ntˌɪnəˈfɪʃ(ə)nt Not achieving maximum productivity; wasting or failing to make the best use of time or resources. inefficient transport systems the government was both inefficient and corrupt Example sentencesExamples - But the force's intelligence system was so inefficient that the records were destroyed or lost.
- Fix deadlines, and if they are not met, punish and replace the lethargic and inefficient ones.
- Buying an extended warranty each time you buy a household appliance is an inefficient way of insuring belongings.
- A fall in asset turnover is normally associated with an inefficient use of resources within a business.
- They make very big, very inefficient barbecues which waste loads of charcoal.
- Indeed, it would be inefficient to waste time perfecting the literary value.
- Originally heralded as a saviour of the poor, he was increasingly seen as corrupt and inefficient.
- France, Canada and Russia have built power stations using the tide, but they are unwieldy and inefficient.
- Insiders blame it on inefficient and unplanned working culture on the campus.
- It would negate the need to build these inefficient wind farms and put a stop to the despoiling of Scotland's landscapes!
- The more important point, however, is that ethnic discrimination is inefficient.
- The accountants decided the accounts were inefficient, and persuaded the politicians to close them.
- The beleaguered and inefficient police service will not solve a minor crime much less for a major one.
- Can public enterprises be reformed from within or are they intrinsically inefficient?
- Does he not realise that the main reason most people don't use the bus is that they are slow, inconvenient and inefficient?
- This free-for-all leads to the economically inefficient use of the resource.
- This he ascribed to two trends: declining productivity growth and the inefficient use of labour.
- His campaign is based on what he believes makes good government and he states that the current system is inefficient.
- Discussion is such a slow and inefficient mechanism for communication of concepts like this.
- Procedures that were set up to expose and correct dishonesty were themselves blocked or shown to be inefficient.
Synonyms ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, incompetent, inept, incapable, unfit, unsuitable, unskilled, unskilful, inexpert, amateurish disorganized, badly organized, unprepared, undisciplined, negligent, lax, slipshod, sloppy, slack, remiss, careless informal lousy, useless British vulgar slang couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery uneconomical, wasteful, purposeless, unproductive, time-wasting, slow, slow-moving, awkward, unwieldy, cumbersome, badly arranged, deficient, disorganized, unsystematic
Derivatives adverbɪnɪˈfɪʃ(ə)ntli She said: ‘It is appalling that public money is being used so inefficiently.’ Example sentencesExamples - Insulin resistance, a condition in which the body handles glucose poorly because cells respond inefficiently to insulin, is a precursor to type II diabetes.
- A man who exercises his faculties but does so inefficiently or badly cannot be said to be making a success of his life.
- Fortunately, the worm is quite badly written, and transfers itself fairly inefficiently.
- Those outfits are our customers, and what we do for them is apply automation to the very tasks they were doing inefficiently in the past.
Definition of inefficient in US English: inefficientadjectiveˌɪnəˈfɪʃ(ə)ntˌinəˈfiSH(ə)nt Not achieving maximum productivity; wasting or failing to make the best use of time or resources. the government was both inefficient and corrupt an old, inefficient factory Example sentencesExamples - This free-for-all leads to the economically inefficient use of the resource.
- The beleaguered and inefficient police service will not solve a minor crime much less for a major one.
- His campaign is based on what he believes makes good government and he states that the current system is inefficient.
- Procedures that were set up to expose and correct dishonesty were themselves blocked or shown to be inefficient.
- Can public enterprises be reformed from within or are they intrinsically inefficient?
- France, Canada and Russia have built power stations using the tide, but they are unwieldy and inefficient.
- A fall in asset turnover is normally associated with an inefficient use of resources within a business.
- Insiders blame it on inefficient and unplanned working culture on the campus.
- Indeed, it would be inefficient to waste time perfecting the literary value.
- Originally heralded as a saviour of the poor, he was increasingly seen as corrupt and inefficient.
- Does he not realise that the main reason most people don't use the bus is that they are slow, inconvenient and inefficient?
- But the force's intelligence system was so inefficient that the records were destroyed or lost.
- The more important point, however, is that ethnic discrimination is inefficient.
- They make very big, very inefficient barbecues which waste loads of charcoal.
- This he ascribed to two trends: declining productivity growth and the inefficient use of labour.
- Discussion is such a slow and inefficient mechanism for communication of concepts like this.
- Fix deadlines, and if they are not met, punish and replace the lethargic and inefficient ones.
- Buying an extended warranty each time you buy a household appliance is an inefficient way of insuring belongings.
- It would negate the need to build these inefficient wind farms and put a stop to the despoiling of Scotland's landscapes!
- The accountants decided the accounts were inefficient, and persuaded the politicians to close them.
Synonyms ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, incompetent, inept, incapable, unfit, unsuitable, unskilled, unskilful, inexpert, amateurish uneconomical, wasteful, purposeless, unproductive, time-wasting, slow, slow-moving, awkward, unwieldy, cumbersome, badly arranged, deficient, disorganized, unsystematic
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