Inefficiency Definition

ĭnĭ-fĭshən-sē
inefficiencies
noun
inefficiencies
The quality, condition, or fact of being inefficient.
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An inefficient act, design, or procedure.
Pointed out certain inefficiencies in the shipping operation.
American Heritage

Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.

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Noun

Singular:
inefficiency
Plural:
inefficiencies

Origin of Inefficiency

Inefficiency Sentence Examples

  • The institution had fallen into a state of lamentable inefficiency.

  • It is true that his allies provided him with 10 ships of their own, but the Spanish navy had sunk to abject inefficiency.

  • The concomitants of these have been irresponsibility and inefficiency.

  • Each pound of steam can thus be made to give up some 950 units of heat; while in a good steam engine only about 200 units are utilized in the steam cylinder per pound of steam, and in addition allowance has to be made for mechanical inefficiency.

  • In the absence of such systems, inefficiency creates work and manually intensive work-arounds and rechecks become the norm.

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IININE

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YCYNCY

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