Synonym: incapable, incompetent, inept, unable, unfit, unskillful. Antonym: efficient. Similar words: inefficiency, efficient, efficiency, sufficient, sufficiently, insufficient, sufficiency, proficiency. Meaning: [‚ɪnɪ'fɪʃnt] adj. 1. not producing desired results; wasteful 2. lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate.
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31. Managers have at last got it into their heads that they can no longer accept inefficient operations.
32. The records had been all balled up by inefficient file clerks.
33. He's hopelessly inefficient , but I suppose he means well.
34. The army was inefficient and poorly equipped.
35. Bullock power to produce wheat is very inefficient.
36. Hence the equilibrium quantity Q is socially inefficient.
37. Inefficient management leads to poor employee performance.
38. The wood-stoves that cook the food are extremely inefficient.
39. The postal service in this country is very inefficient.
40. Our power stations are notoriously inefficient.
41. The inefficient and unprogressive were penalized by extinction.
42. In practice, the city's transportation system is very inefficient.
43. We inherited inefficient industries from the Soviet system.
44. Belarus' economy is still encumbered with inefficient state-owned factories.
45. Such systems were usually, by modern standards, inequitable, exploitive, rigid(Sentence dictionary), and inefficient.
46. Some critics of the public sector maintain that it is inherently inefficient and unable to control its expenditure.
47. Penelope Fitzgerald's swansong simply shows up reviewing as an inefficient mechanism.
48. Commentators noted the burden this would place on inefficient, loss-making enterprises.
49. These exclusions make the charges an inefficient way to raise revenue.
50. For example, you might be convinced that government bureaucracies are inefficient because a specific agency handled your inquiries so ineptly.
51. The proxy might be efficient when the market portfolio is inefficient. 2.
52. Wasteful and inefficient production Critics also challenge the assertion that the market system provides the goods most wanted by society.
53. He voted to increase fares on the wildly inefficient SunTran bus system[sentencedict.com], thus further oppressing working men and women.
54. Currently, they do so only because of the inefficient way they are handled.
55. They agreed in rejecting the balance of power as a hopelessly inefficient mechanism for this purpose.
56. In addition they were perceived to be inefficient, measured in terms of productivity, and also unprofitable, causing a drain on public finances.
57. Equilibrium will be inefficient. 7 Distortions occur whenever free market equilibrium does not equate marginal social cost and marginal social benefit.
58. The basic cause was low productivity, exacerbated by distribution difficulties and the inefficient transmission of information.
59. Further cost is incurred by the buyer through increased labour costs when cleaners are given inefficient and unsuitable materials.
60. It is an outdated and inefficient system, which is not appropriate for this type of work.
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