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Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
Tim Murphy

Meaning of "inefficiency" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INEFFICIENCY

inefficiency  [ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INEFFICIENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inefficiency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INEFFICIENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inefficiency

The term inefficiency has several meanings depending on the context in which its used: ▪ Allocative inefficiency - Allocative inefficiency is a situation in which the distribution of resources between alternatives does not fit with consumer taste. For example, a company may have the lowest costs in "productive" terms, but the result may be inefficient in allocative terms because the "true" or social cost exceeds the price that consumers are willing to pay for an extra unit of the product. This is true, for example, if the firm produces pollution. Consumers would prefer that the firm and its competitors produce less of the product and charge a higher price, to internalize the external cost. ▪ Distributive Inefficiency - refers to the inefficient distribution of income and wealth within a society. Decreasing marginal utilities of wealth suggests that more egalitarian distributions of wealth are more efficient than unegalitarian distributions. Distributive inefficiency is often associated with economic inequality. ▪ Economic inefficiency - refers to a situation where "we could be doing a better job," i.e., attaining our goals at lower cost.

Definition of inefficiency in the English dictionary

The definition of inefficiency in the dictionary is inability to perform a task or function to the best advantage; wastefulness or incompetence. Other definition of inefficiency is inability to produce the desired result because of not working in the most productive way.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INEFFICIENCY


agency
ˈeɪdʒənsɪ
cecutiency
sɪˈkjuːʃənsɪ
consistency
kənˈsɪstənsɪ
currency
ˈkʌrənsɪ
deficiency
dɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
dissentiency
dɪˈsɛnʃənsɪ
efficiency
ɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
emergency
ɪˈmɜːdʒənsɪ
frequency
ˈfriːkwənsɪ
immunodeficiency
ˌimjʊnəʊdɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
insufficiency
ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃənsɪ
physiciancy
fɪˈzɪʃənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ
pregnancy
ˈprɛɡnənsɪ
proficiency
prəˈfɪʃənsɪ
self-sufficiency
ˌsɛlfsəˈfɪʃənsɪ
sentiency
ˈsenʃənsɪ
sufficiency
səˈfɪʃənsɪ
superefficiency
ˌsuːpərɪˈfɪʃənsɪ
trenchancy
ˈtrɛntʃənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INEFFICIENCY

ineffable
ineffableness
ineffably
ineffaceability
ineffaceable
ineffaceably
ineffective
ineffectively
ineffectiveness
ineffectual
ineffectuality
ineffectually
ineffectualness
inefficacious
inefficaciously
inefficaciousness
inefficacity
inefficacy
inefficient
inefficiently

WORDS THAT END LIKE INEFFICIENCY

adrenal insufficiency
current efficiency
energy efficiency
enzyme deficiency
expediency
fuel efficiency
heat efficiency
immune deficiency
leniency
luminous efficiency
mental deficiency
parturiency
protein deficiency
quantum efficiency
resiliency
saliency
tendency
thermal efficiency
transiency
vitamin deficiency
volumetric efficiency

Synonyms and antonyms of inefficiency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INEFFICIENCY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inefficiency» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inefficiency

Translation of «inefficiency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INEFFICIENCY

Find out the translation of inefficiency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inefficiency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inefficiency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

效率低下
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ineficiencia
570 millions of speakers

English

inefficiency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अक्षमता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عدم الكفاءة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неэффективность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ineficiência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অদক্ষতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inefficacité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketidakcekapan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ineffizienz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

効率の悪さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비 효율성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inefficiency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không hiệu quả
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திறமையின்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अकार्यक्षमता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

verimsizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inefficienza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieefektywność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неефективність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ineficiența
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναποτελεσματικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ondoeltreffendheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ineffektivitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ineffektivitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inefficiency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INEFFICIENCY»

The term «inefficiency» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.613 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INEFFICIENCY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inefficiency

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10 QUOTES WITH «INEFFICIENCY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inefficiency.
1
Richard V. Allen
In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.
2
Marcia Angell
The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.
3
Henry Charles Carey
In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
4
Crystal Eastman
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
5
Albert Ellis
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
6
Bill Gates
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
7
Eugene McCarthy
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
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Kathryn Minshew
Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.
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Evgeny Morozov
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.
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Tim Murphy
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INEFFICIENCY»

Discover the use of inefficiency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inefficiency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Congo Masquerade: The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency ...
Examines the reasons for the Congo remaining a failed state despite being one of the 21st-century's major attempts at reconstruction.
Theodore Trefon, 2011
2
Faith-based Inefficiency: The Follies of Bush's Initiatives
In Faith-Based Inefficiency Bob Wineburg argues that beneath the compassionate camouflage lies a five-star war plan to demolish government programs, mobilize and increase the size of the evangelical Christian voting block, shift government ...
Robert J. Wineburg, 2007
3
Industrial Inefficiency and Downsizing: A Study of Layoffs ...
Where does corporate "fat" accumulate and how is it eliminated in response to competitive forces?
Matthew B. Krepps, Amy Bertin Candell, 1997
4
DOD excess property management control breakdowns result in ...
Analysis. of. Reutilization. Program. Identifies. Billions. of. Dollars. in. Waste. and. Inefficiency. Our analysis of $18.6 billion20 in fiscal year 2002 and 2003 excess commodity disposal activity identified $2.5 billion in excess items that were ...
United States, Government Accountability Office
5
The Ramifications of Anticipated Inefficiency in the Market ...
This provides a necessary context for Chapter Five, as anticipated inefficiency is a necessary assumption. Osborne's Paper As mentioned above, Osborne (2001) performs an important reexamination of the efficient markets hypothesis.
George Diemer, 2008
6
The Economics of Input-Output Analysis
9. The. diagnosis. of. inefficiency. 9.1 Introduction The macroeconomic production function measures the maximum value-added that can be earned by appropriate allocation and utilization of given amounts of capital and labor. In reality, the ...
Thijs ten Raa, 2006
7
Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining ...
The necessary conditions for a market inefficiency to be eliminated are: • The market inefficiency should provide the basis for a scheme to beat the market and earn excess returns. For this to hold true: The asset or assets that are the source of ...
Aswath Damodaran, 2002
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Sources of Productivity Growth
Assume the discrepancy causing allocative inefficiency is not so large. Then by Taylor expansion of /"about z we get: . (15.5) We can observe the first term of the right side of the equation. The term is determined only by x. By assumption on the  ...
David G. Mayes, 1996
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Multi-Modal Competition and the Future of Mail
In the case of time-invariant inefficiency (or BC specification), the unobserved heterogeneity component is not correctly identified and here considered for a large part as inefficiency, explaining the observed overestimation for inefficiency.
Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, 2012
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The (dis)organizing Property of Communication: Error and ...
Ryan S. Bisel. developing. Kuhn commented, “[The] pre-paradigmatic period, in particular, is regularly marked by frequent and deep debates over legitimate methods, problems, and standards of solution, though these serve rather to define ...
Ryan S. Bisel, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INEFFICIENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inefficiency is used in the context of the following news items.
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Caitlyn Jenner proves there's more than one way to be an American …
They need a reformed Department of Veteran Affairs—a hopeless mess of bureaucracy and inefficiency. They need better funded post-combat ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
2
Daily chart: Adjusting the taps | The Economist
The profits are higher for some period, but there is an inefficiency of .... lead to inefficiency in the world, which seems to be empirically observed ... «The Economist, Jul 15»
3
Powder Extends Almost-Expired Food's Shelf Life, Could Be Key To …
"[We are] not into using a new product or new technology, [but] creating value out of the inefficiency of the food system," Gerald Marin, one of ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
The Curse of the 'Do Something' Syndrome | TIME
... it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” — Roman satirist Petronius Arbiter. «TIME, Jul 15»
5
Early Impressions of Mario Hezonja at 2015 NBA Summer League …
But given his style of play and the adjustment that comes with moving from overseas to the U.S., the hiccups and inefficiency was to be ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
6
Mailbag: Seattle Mariners' woes, Jason Hammel's rollercoaster …
Did he see the strikeout scourge coming and find the market inefficiency of players who put the ball in play? And inexpensive flyball pitchers who use the huge ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
7
Ex-CEO of Ben & Jerry's, Fiery Marine Join Defense Business Board …
... know Punaro know better. He's a gleeful bomb-thrower with zero patience for Pentagon inefficiency and real eagerness for radical solutions. «Breaking Defense, Jul 15»
8
Nigeria and the US: A new era of cooperation? | Africa | DW.COM …
... military lost much of its reputation in the eyes of the US and Europe as well as in neighboring countries, due to its perceived inefficiency. «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
9
Tennessee Football: Is the Volunteers' Rush Attack Back? | Bleacher …
With that lengthy level of inefficiency, why are Tennessee coaches more optimistic things can change this year? The answer is many-pronged. «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
10
Hike in VAT on diesel exposes double-standards of BJP: Congress …
This is the price the man in the street has to pay for the inefficiency and mismanagement of resources by the Khattar Government which is ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»

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