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Inefficiency

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of efficiency or effectiveness. countable, uncountable

    "Yet only 21 percent of adult TANF recipients are working today, largely because of these inefficiencies and loopholes."

  2. 2
    unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency wordnet

Etymology

From in- + efficiency.

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