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inefficiency

noun as in incompetence

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Pakistan's ageing power grid is plagued by inefficiencies, with significant amounts of energy lost during transmission and widespread theft.

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The law doesn’t define “cause,” though it is often understood to be related to inefficiency, a neglect of duty or misconduct in office.

The fund was capped at $10 billion because beyond that size, the strategies would move markets too much — destroying the very inefficiencies they exploited.

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For dispensary owners, wading through government inefficiency burns precious capital.

“It made me feel good that there was such inefficiency to this market,” he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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