🔤 Inefficiency (Noun)

IPA: //ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənsi//

✨ Use inefficiency when effort is being spent—but not turning into results.

🧠 Meaning

The state of not achieving maximum productivity; wasting time, effort, or resources.

✍️ Example Sentences

🔹 The report highlighted serious inefficiency in the company’s supply chain.

🔹 Government inefficiency often leads to delays in public services.

📜 Word Origin

From Latin inefficere (“not able to accomplish”), from in- (“not”) + facere (“to do, make”).

💡 Did You Know?

Inefficiency doesn’t always mean incompetence—sometimes it’s caused by outdated systems, bureaucracy, or lack of resources.

🏷️ Related Words

#wastefulness #unproductiveness #incompetence #sluggishness #disorder

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