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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91. People would succumb to temptation and revert to familiar if inefficient form.
92. It is absolutely true that many forms of modern, intensive livestock production are extremely inefficient.
93. But, in principle, an enterprise might be so inefficient that its revenues fail to cover even the cost of materials.
94. Apparent Disadvantages of Swarm Systems NonoptimalBecause they are redundant and have no central control, swarm systems are inefficient.
95. An inefficient socialist economy and thirty years of increasingly corrupt one-party rule have made their contributions.
96. Last year the Institute of Personnel Management warned companies that reluctance to hire older people was inefficient and harmed competitiveness.
97. The excess fuel cools the engine - acceptable for short periods in the climb but inefficient and expensive for extended cruise.
98. A machine fitted on the wrong side will be inefficient and wear out quickly.
99. But there are many more allocations that are inefficient. 5 Under strict conditions, competitive equilibrium is Pareto-efficient.
100. Williamson argues that, compared to simple hierarchy, the peer group is inefficient in both making and implementing decisions.
101. If land is not suitable for efficient farming, we can ill afford it being used for inefficient agriculture.
102. They knew that they had fought bravely but that there had been mismanagement and inefficient generalship.
103. An inefficient lift pump can often take several revolutions of the engine if hot and left standing for a short time.
104. It is produced in the body from linoleic acid, but the conversion process is inefficient.
105. The factory is inefficient,(http://sentencedict.com/inefficient.html) its working practices and much of its machinery dated.
106. And as the electric industry is deregulated and marches toward increased competition, inefficient utilities could get clobbered.
107. Second, the state will continue to prop up inefficient state enterprises.
108. The budget process in Congress, in other words, was deemed to be irrational, uncoordinated and inefficient.
109. On the whole we are too ashamed to use inconvenience as a way of changing behaviour because it seems dishonest and inefficient.
110. Third, it is time to privatize Pemex, the inefficient state oil company.
111. Local government in the area is seen as being corrupt and inefficient.
112. Customers may be forced to borrow from inefficient banks or other financial institutions, probably charging higher interest rates.
113. Similarly, it seeks to discover how efficient the competitive process is in weeding out relatively inefficient firms.
114. Prison is an expensive and inefficient way to deal with social problems.
115. But something that is by definition inefficient is fairly certain also to be undignified.
116. This make Huffman coding inefficient with small files.
117. You know how inefficient and tyrannical government bureaucracies are.
118. Well, to protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition.
119. That's an inefficient and expensive method.
120. Inefficient implementation of prices aggravates the problem.
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