Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality, condition, or fact of being inefficient.
- noun An inefficient act, design, or procedure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being inefficient; lack of efficiency; incompetency; inadequacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being inefficient; lack of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Lack ofefficiency oreffectiveness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency
Etymologies
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in- + efficiency.
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