English English Dictionary

efficient in English:

1. efficiency

The Director's appraisal of our efficiency was positive overall.

Office managers expect accuracy, efficiency, and dedication.

Charles Moore created Forth in an attempt to increase programmer productivity without sacrificing machine efficiency.

That makes for efficiency.

efficiency = performance results

Everyone strives for efficiency but few seem to attain it.

Efficiency is the dominant idea in business.

Our firm is a giant one, and there are some rules and regulations, which should be revised or rescinded to reduce red tape and increase efficiency.

Don't confuse "efficacy" with "efficiency".

The efficiency of Kemil's team is not the best.

she was at the sports center where the athlete checked her efficiency.

I don't mention the high energy efficiency of these LED light bulbs.

Or busied herself in her garden, cutting things down with frightening efficiency.

It seems that the efficiency of controls could be improved in certain areas.

Efficiency is defined as the ability to produce something with a minimum amount of effort. An example of efficiency is a reduction in the number of workers needed to make a car.

2. working or operating quickly and effectively in an organized way

English word "efficient"(working or operating quickly and effectively in an organized way) occurs in sets:

Unit 3 listening

3. able to do tasks successfully without wasting time or energy

4. working well and not wasting time or energy

English word "efficient"(working well and not wasting time or energy) occurs in sets:

Cambridge Objective Advanced - Unit 4

5. inefficiency

inefficiency of the school system

Too many people working on the same project can lead to inefficiency.

English word "efficient"(inefficiency) occurs in sets:

Word Formation (Year 3)

6. inefficient

Existing methods of production are expensive and inefficient.

Local government was inefficient.

The restaurant staff were inefficient.

I don’t like our new work schedule. It’s an inefficient use of time.

We have the most inefficient health care system in the world.

The program's memory management was so inefficient that it actually damaged the RAM somehow!

A literal boatload of new computers were recalled for inefficient power use.

This design is too inefficient to prototype.

English word "efficient"(inefficient) occurs in sets:

Opposites and Suffixes

7. doing job well

8. doing something well without wasting anything

English word "efficient"(doing something well without wasting anything) occurs in sets:

Unit 1 Part 1

9. efficient at

10. effective

Do you think you have to be able to pass for a native speaker to be an effective spy?

I hear that studying in the morning is more effective. Studying one hour in the morning is as good as three hours at night.

OPP ineffective

I hope you're prepared to communicate under these conditions, because e-mail is most effective and convenient when different time zones are taken into consideration.

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

These quotations were effective in sending complex messages to his friends, because, in his day, people could quote from such authors with every expectation of being understood.

My father achieved that and more in four words, which made quoting Shakespeare as effective as any business adviser could wish.

The most effective means for the propagation of Esperanto is the fluent and elegant use of this language.

In order to bring about an effective agreement of wills, it is not sufficient to study other languages.

As of midnight tonight the contract becomes effective.

The art of modern warfare does not necessarily require soldiers to be armed to the teeth to be effective as combatants.

1. That picture would look more effective on a dark background. 2. The soldiers gained effective control of the town.

An effective writer is one who knows what sort of words should be employed in any specific context.

Out of the four policies that were suggested, I think the most effective one would be the "Improvement of Preventive Care and Health Promotion" policy.

Girls wearing mini-skirts, walking or sitting, are very effective eye-openers.

11. good working

English word "efficient"(good working) occurs in sets:

Part 4 (Blue)

12. working well and not to wasting time or energy

13. at

I'm at the hospital. I got struck by lightning.

How many times a day do you look at yourself in the mirror?

I'm good at Japanese.

I'm thinking about complaining about my son's teacher at the kindergarten.

To the best of my knowledge, the lake is the deepest at this point.

He did something stupid and was sneered at.

Happiness depends not so much on circumstances as on one's way of looking at one's lot.

You went to bed at 2 o'clock in the morning? No wonder you look sleepy today.

Do you mind if I call on you sometime? "No, not at all."

School begins at half past eight except on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

At first I felt a bit too shy to speak to her.

At the party the other night, my brother drank a bit too much and passed out.

At Narita Airport, I ran into an old friend of mine.

When I was a kid, touching bugs didn't bother me a bit. Now I can hardly stand looking at pictures of them.

Her composition had no grammatical errors at all.

English word "efficient"(at) occurs in sets:

Prepositions for Ewa

14. ineffective

Luckily, the treatment was only ineffective instead of harmful.

A plethora of ineffective education programs made the president unpopular amongst fiscal conservatives.

Five self-help books later, Sergey still had a terribly ineffective approach to management.

It began to dawn on me that, to oppose political and social chaos, cultured means would be ineffective.

15. you work quickly

English word "efficient"(you work quickly) occurs in sets:

Słówka medycyna

16. unproductive

I believe it would be unproductive with regard to the present recovery.

The whole dispute proved to be unproductive.

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