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How to pronounce “inefficient”
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Pronunciation guide for inefficient
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of inefficient with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
MARC GLIMCHER: It's a highly inefficient market.
- Definition summary
- Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
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How to pronounce inefficient
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
MARC GLIMCHER: It's a highly inefficient market.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “inefficient”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
- Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.
- [Noun]
- A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.
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