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ef·fi·ciency (e fis̸h′ən sē, i-)
noun pl. efficiencies -·cies
- ability to produce a desired effect, product, etc. with a minimum of effort, expense, or waste; quality or fact of being efficient
- the ratio of effective work to the energy expended in producing it, as of a machine; output divided by input
- ☆ efficiency apartment
Etymology: L efficientia: see efficient
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efficiency
n.
A high degree of effectiveness
competence, capability, capableness; see ability 2.The relation of results to expenditure
productivity, effectiveness, power, potency, performance, suitability, adaptability, thoroughness, energy, effectualness, efficaciousness, adequacy, productiveness, powerfulness, efficacy, competence, proficiency, elasticity, conductivity, response, potential energy, faculty, facility, practical utility, profitability, yield.
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Converse of object
- improve: We're spending nearly £ 600 million to improve the efficiency of the planning system.
Adjective modifier
- operational: CRM can help you with: 1. Operational efficiency - to be more productive.
Modifies a noun
- saving: The efficiency savings will have a huge effect on pay.
Noun used with modifier
- energy: The energy efficiency of much of the UK's housing is, thus, poor or very poor.
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We must protect big business from domination by fat- minded men whose principal business policy is to avoid a competitive race for efficiency They believe in a system of soft enterprise,ösoft in the way that an octopus is soft, with tentacles that stifle and suffocate.
Efficiencyis measured at the extremities.You do not find the efficiency of an army at headquarters, nor of a firminhead office.It isattheremotest pointötheprivate soldier or humble legionary on the distant frontier, the girl at the counter or the branch-office junior salesman öthat the really decisive test of an army or a firm is made.It istherethat all theinstructionand knowledge of relevant facts and procedural disciplines bear fruitöor wither on the tree.
All industrial efficiency consists in trying to do with eight men what we have hitherto been doing with ten men. It consists in creating unemployment.
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