Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality, condition, or fact of being inefficient.
- noun An inefficient act, design, or procedure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being inefficient; lack of efficiency; incompetency; inadequacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being inefficient; lack of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Lack ofefficiency oreffectiveness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency
Etymologies
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Examples
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She obliged, and for the rest of her term inefficiency and confusion prevailed.
Reese Schonfeld: Browner Not Greener: The Decline and Fall of Environmental Policy 2009
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And when the president and the demoncrat Congress have put their public option in place, will there be an expert panel of doctors and medical experts empowered to eliminate waste and inefficiency from the new public option trough?
Obama mentions agreement for experts' panel to study Medicare waste 2009
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Another possible inefficiency is that creators might know that an invention which they create independently might still fall afoul of a granted patent or copyright.
Intellectual Property, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Very simple, an inefficiency is only cleaned up in the market if there is an incentive for someone to do it.
Minimum Wage and CEO Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We know the main inefficiency in those channels: when people save instead of spend those additional cash flows, they have no direct stimulus effect.
Matthew Yglesias » Business Forecasters Say ARRA Worked 2010
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Second, accusing the United States Post Office of inefficiency is weak.
No Shame 2009
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This is, of course, only my opinion, that IP _is_ a market inefficiency is a clearly a fact.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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That inefficiency is expensive and we all pay for it somehow.
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Their inefficiency is a result of their protection.
Australia's Economic Miracle, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Built-in inefficiency of our democratic government.
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