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adj.not working well; wasteful

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Execs also believe that speed as well as fewer in-person meetings will remain as flying across the country when you know you can get something done over Zoom may be seen as inefficient and unnecessarily expensive now.

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The IEA notes that the best technology available is more than twice as efficient as the average of what’s actually in use around the world, and three times better than the most inefficient products on the market.

AIR CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY IS THE GREAT MISSED OPPORTUNITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGEJAMES TEMPLESEPTEMBER 1, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

Up until this capture, we’d placed our noose carpets along the riverbank in areas we hoped the owls would land, which was inefficient.

THE QUEST TO SNARE—AND SAVE—THE WORLD’S LARGEST OWLJONATHAN SLAGHTAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE

It is economically inefficient to preserve jobs in companies that are unlikely to survive the structural changes of the fourth industrial revolution.

‘WE WILL DO THIS TOGETHER’: GERMANY WILL CONTINUE SUBSIDIZING WORKERS’ WAGES THROUGH THE END OF 2021DAVID MEYERAUGUST 26, 2020FORTUNE

In fact, in some ways, Xi Jinping himself was picked because of the party’s fear that, in the period after SARS, it was losing control of parts of society because it was seen as corrupt, as inefficient, as incompetent.

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In 1997, Ed Glaeser did his own analysis of rent control in New York City, trying to determine just how economically inefficient it was.

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It was followed by a sharp click as the inefficient catch was forced back.

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES IN BOOK MAKINGR.M. BALLANTYNE

Therefore, such interpretation is not admissible as would make a stipulation meaningless or inefficient.

INTERNATIONAL LAW. A TREATISE. VOLUME I (OF 2)LASSA FRANCIS OPPENHEIM

After his death his system fell into disuse and it became increasingly difficult to get rid of inefficient or rebellious officers.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPEJAMES HARVEY ROBINSON

Moments when the inharmonious becomes harmonious, the indiscreet discreet, the inefficient efficient, and the inevitable evitable.

UNDER THE REDWOODSBRET HARTE