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Definition of Inefficient
Inefficient

Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.

Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.

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Inefficient Quotations

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

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Henry George

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
W. Somerset Maugham

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Edward de Bono

Inefficient Translations

inefficient in French is inhabile, inefficace
inefficient in German is unrationell
inefficient in Italian is inefficiente, incapace
inefficient in Norwegian is udugelig
inefficient in Spanish is ineficaz, negado


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