Inefficiency(n.) The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.
Inefficient(a.) Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
Inefficient(a.) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
Inefficiently(adv.) In an inefficient manner.
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