Definition of Efficient

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Efficient

Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.

An efficient cause; a prime mover.

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Efficient Quotations

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Tony Robbins

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.
Bill Gates

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Peter Drucker

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Wilson Mizner

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Henry Ward Beecher

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
Gertrude Stein

Efficient Translations

efficient in Italian is valente
efficient in Latin is efficax, efficens
efficient in Norwegian is effektiv
efficient in Spanish is eficaz, valiente
efficient in Swedish is effektivt

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