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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61. Antiquated equipment, badly designed ballot papers and inefficient vote-counting machinery contributed to the confusion.
62. The issue of whether insider dealing is efficient or inefficient is problematic.
63. Developing small-scale enterprises also runs counter to a parallel policy of closing down inefficient and pollution-rich rural enterprises.
64. The Profitboss will provide the opportunity by easing out Maureen Stilgoe, the ultra-conservative and inefficient corporate personnel manager.
65. I choose to believe he was merely a slob rather than inefficient enough to walk around with bloodstains from his last victim.
66. Unsubstantiated half-truths and distortions of fact cause unnecessary argument and are an inefficient use of people's time.
67. Jobs had immediately disappeared, as inefficient eastern industries and bureaucracies were shut down.
68. It would be inefficient and uneconomical to avoid such terminology when it can be used to crystallise a concept.
69. The brakes consisted of two inefficient rear brakes and one transmission front brake, usually full of oil.
70. Governments caring sufficiently about redistribution might still prefer inefficient allocations with greater vertical equity.
71. It suggests that the benefits of an inefficient fiscal system exceed the costs of high inflation rates.
72. Inefficient Communist factories can be made to run at much higher output levels by simply using better management techniques.
73. Inefficient recovery practices have left metal-rich waste dumps which have often been levelled or used as roadstone.
74. From this he deduced that the boiler was too small and this led him on to wondering why the engine was so inefficient.
75. The duplication of work involved if each teacher independently conducts these activities is obviously an inefficient use of resources.
76. This however,(www.Sentencedict.com) will only lead to an inefficient facility in the long run.
77. Nonconformists saw slavery as an affront to their religion; utilitarians dismissed it as inefficient.
78. While the synapse is only an inefficient chemical middleman in what are otherwise efficient electrical processes, it is a malleable middleman.
79. In short, the outcome is allocatively inefficient: a rearrangement of resources would produce a net increase in the satisfaction of wants.
80. The factory is inefficient, and its working practices and machinery dated.
81. Giant and inefficient marketing boards have had the opposite effect of their nominal purpose, and have further squeezed farmers' margins.
82. The reason is that a spreadsheet program is generally inefficient at performing calculations and so much of the theoretical gain is lost.
83. The proxy might be inefficient when the market portfolio is efficient.
84. At present domestic labour is organisationally inefficient because it is not socialised like the industrial sphere, which counterbalances increased productivity through mechanisation.
85. She/he may withhold the central grant to any force deemed inefficient by the Home Office Inspectorate.
86. I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. W. Somerset Maugham
87. And none of these solutions addresses the underlying problem: jobs are an inefficient and uneconomical way to divide work.
88. How should we measure the social cost of monopoly power and inefficient resource allocation?
89. It is an unprofessional, time-consuming and inefficient way to use video recordings.
90. But government intervention is not the only way to cope with the problem of socially inefficient resource allocation due to externalities.
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