Antonym: inefficient. Similar words: efficiency, sufficient, scientific, efficacy, official, officially, officious, ancient. Meaning: [-nt] adj. 1. being effective without wasting time or effort or expense 2. able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively.
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(181) Household and public rubbish is carted away by the city's relatively efficient Sanitation Department.
(182) We would also like to establish a functional and efficient method for connecting our systems to the specialist gardens.
(183) The resultant traffic snarl convinced him that there must be a more economical and efficient sys-tem of distribution.
(184) When injured it becomes a less efficient hunting machine and puts itself in considerable danger.
(185) Jim McWhir, working with Ray Ansell, devised an extremely efficient method for doing this.
(186) More efficient drives dissipate less heat and hence require smaller heat sinks-traditionally the largest component.
(187) Give them enough bait to lure them and when they call be cool, crisp, and efficient.
(188) The chance of reproducing is high even if the organism is not very efficient.
(189) A more efficient tax system would not discriminate between cash compensation and fringe benefits.
(190) They use a system similar to that developed by some of the live-bearing reptiles but one that is enormously more efficient.
(191) Here,(www.Sentencedict.com) we have approached this problem by using an efficient in vitro method for generating mutations at defined regions.
(192) Payment of subscriptions by direct debit, either annually or quarterly, makes more efficient use of Association resources.
(193) Efficient recycling is the only acceptable solution for Earth and the only key to sustainable life elsewhere in space.
(194) Higher spending practices were rewarded for their inefficiency and the more efficient penalised by lower budget allocations.
(195) He came to regard Fisher as distant, but forceful and rapid and efficient, and later as friendly.
(196) All this is exquisitely landscaped, spotlessly clean and gives the impression of being the work of an inspired, efficient dictator.
(197) For the international economy it hopefully brings about a more efficient allocation of investment or financial resources.
(198) In fact an efficient parser must be guided by pragmatic as well as syntactic constraints.
(199) Low-cost solutions that marry new digital-data acquisition boards to efficient processing algorithms were assessed prior to being developed.
(200) Foreign competition provides consumers with a greater variety of goods and it forces domestic producers to be more efficient than otherwise.
(201) The market therefore does not produce a socially efficient allocation of resources.
(202) It is my strong conviction that an efficient economy and a fair society go together.
(203) A good secretary needs to be efficient, and above all diplomatic.
(204) They are highly efficient and especially adroit at cutting out excessive steps and cumbersome procedures.
(205) Though this makes many passengers change aeroplanes, it is highly efficient for the airlines themselves.
(206) Whatever happens, either we obtain an efficient solution or we can deduce that there are no efficient solutions.
(207) If the market does not achieve an efficient allocation of resources there is said to be market failure.
(208) The result should be health care that is more predictable and efficient.
(209) In the majority of cases, keeping a project within budget depends on an efficient and effective system of cost control.
(210) What is the most cost-effective and efficient way of achieving those ends remains to be decided after proper examination.
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