Definition of Inefficiency

1. Noun. Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency.

Generic synonyms: Unskillfulness
Antonyms: Efficiency
Derivative terms: Inefficient, Inefficient

Definition of Inefficiency

1. n. The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.

Definition of Inefficiency

1. Noun. Lack of efficiency or effectiveness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inefficiency

1. [n INEFFICIENCIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inefficiency

ineffectively
ineffectiveness
ineffectual
ineffectuality
ineffectuall
ineffectually
ineffectualness
ineffervescence
ineffervescent
inefficacies
inefficacious
inefficaciously
inefficaciousness
inefficacy
inefficiencies
inefficiency (current term)
inefficient
inefficiently
inefficients
inegalitarian
inegalitarianism
inegalitarians
inelaborate
inelastic
inelastically
inelasticities
inelasticity
inelative
inelative case
inelegance

Literary usage of Inefficiency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Business Administration by Leon Carroll Marshall (1921)
"SOME CAUSES OF inefficiency IN MODERN INDUSTRY1 The causes of inefficiency ... Those causes of inefficiency which are chargeable primarily to the employer ..."

2. Public Utilities; Their Cost New and Depreciation by Hammond Vinton Hayes (1913)
"inefficiency.— Before entering upon a consideration of the above factors influencing the life of plant units, it will be well to discuss somewhat at length ..."

3. Scientific Management: A Collection of the More Significant Articles edited by Clarence Bertrand Thompson (1914)
"CAUSES OF INDUSTRIAL inefficiency So far this article has considered only the broad aspects of industrial administration. In order to get a better idea of ..."

4. Jewish Philanthropy: An Exposition of Principles and Methods of Jewish by Boris David Bogen (1917)
"An analysis of this particular class of dependency shows two principal subjective conditions responsible for the situation; first, the inefficiency of the ..."

5. The Labor Market by Don Divance Lescohier (1919)
"EFFECT OF inefficiency ON DEMAND FOR LABOR j inefficiency of workers probably decreases the total volume of employment open to wage earners. ..."

6. The Family and Social Work by Edward Thomas Devine (1912)
"VI inefficiency AND DESERTION Every personal weakness and folly, every adverse ... inefficiency and shiftlessness, a defective organization of industry, ..."

7. The Principles of Equity: A Treatise on the System of Justice Administered by George Tucker Bispham, Sharswood Brinton (1914)
"Origin of the doctrine. during lifetime; inefficiency of common-law executions. 533. ... Creditors' bills against a debtor daring lifetime; inefficiency of ..."

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