Synonyms for inefficiency
ˌɪn ɪˈfɪʃ ən siin·ef·fi·cien·cy

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1. inefficiency

   Synonyms:
   failure, inaction, ineffectiveness, inutility, powerlessness, uselessness

   Antonyms:
   action, agency, effect, execution, force, influence, operation, performance, procedure, result

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1. inefficiencynoun

   unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency

   Antonyms:
   efficiency

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1. • Unskillfulness

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1. inefficiencynoun

   Synonyms:
   weakness, impotence, inefficacy, powerlessness

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1. List of paraphrases for "inefficiency":

   ineffectiveness, inefficacy, ineffective

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1. Alex Azar:

   We've got to use the full power of the U.S. government and the private sector here to compress all of those (drug trial) timelines, reduce inefficiency in development and use the power of the U.S. government to produce at risk, scale hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines even while we're running the clinical trials to prove their safe and effective.

2. Daniel Loeb:

   The capacity expansions should not be thought of as an alternative to solving the blatant capital inefficiency of Fanuc.

3. Al Gore:

   Information technology gives us the means to harvest the enormous opportunities represented by inefficiency, it is relatively easy now to design and build zero carbon buildings. The savings in energy, material costs and the reductions in global warming pollution are not minor. We’re talking about 50, 60, 70, 80 even 90 percent savings in category after category.

4. Philippe Pradal:

   After realizing the inefficiency of his stabs ... he tried to hurt him in the face.

5. The United:

   We are in the middle of a catastrophe that is not the result of a hurricane, that is not the result of a tsunami, it's the product of the inefficiency, the incapability, the corruption of a regime that doesn't care about the lives of Venezuelans.