Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not efficient, effectual, or competent.
- noun One who is not efficient; specifically, in Great Britain, a volunteer who has not attended a prescribed number of drills and shown a requisite degree of proficiency in shooting.
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Examples
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If the radar beacons are not working, they are not allowed into airspace above 10,000 feet and will get a very non-efficient route until it is working.
Updated: Whoa, That Airplane Is Really Close To Ours - The Consumerist 2008
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My point is that I do respect how those companies focus so much on developing and maintaining those "non-efficient" solutions to end up with qualitatively superior products.
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In a way, this might be also a kind of "non-efficient" solution.
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If and when that happens, CAPS may be little more than a way to push stocks that “experts” have a financial interest in, or for other non-efficient reasons.
CAPS Takes “Wisdom of the Few” To Stock Picking Nick Gonzalez 2005
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So in spite of the above mentioned universality of the model and its generalizations a routine approach is often non-efficient.
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Of course, it depends upon their fleet mix, whether they have efficient or non-efficient cars.
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The technical means which make that system rational and efficient in its aggregate terms, i.e., as viewed from the top, themselves tend by design to filter out the "non-rational" or "non-efficient" elements of its components and subjects, i.e., those rising from the bottom.
A Special Supplement: Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals McDermott, John 1969
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The materialistic Sociologists, who talk about the survival of the fittest and the weakest going to the wall (and whose way of looking at the world is to put on the latest and most powerful scientific spectacles, and then shut their eyes), frequently talk as if a workman were simply efficient or non-efficient, as if a criminal were reclaimable or irreclaimable.
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The whole of humanity, therefore, regardless of color or race, may be divided into efficient and non-efficient groups.
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The advantage of purchasing a fuel-efficient vehicle that takes regular gasoline over a non-efficient one that requires premium can result in yearly savings of around $1,000 dollars for the average driver.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Arthur Pinkasovitch 2011
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