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[ US /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ ]
[ US /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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being effective without wasting time or effort or expense
an efficient production manager
efficient engines save gas -
able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively
effective personnel
the efficient cause of the revolution
an efficient secretary
people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons...
How To Use efficient In A Sentence
- Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending? Transcript: Richard Bove
- This can entail harming companies that would be as efficient and as effective as Google is in these areas but for their limited access to consumers, creating a clear violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, of American law on monopolization, and on European competition law. Eric K. Clemons: One Click Away? Maybe and Maybe Not
- She efficiently drugged me out until six in the morning, when I phoned Chris's bleeper and got his return call five minutes later. They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
- Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life. Time Tripping
- Electrical devices on spacecrafts, satellites, and aircraft must work reliably and efficiently in situations where they can not be easily repaired.
- We close by stressing the importance of implementing effective, efficient and multipliable small group collaborative learning environments online.
- Using the entropy framework, a prior, or expected value, and upper and lower bounds are needed for each estimated coefficient and error term.
- Its traditional copper pots and pans combine efficient heat conductivity with cleanability. Times, Sunday Times
- The art of writing a good chess program is thinking of efficient short cuts through the search-space.
- Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose.