Meaning | effective without wasting time or effort or expense. |
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Examples | - "an efficient production manager"
- "efficient engines save gas"
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Narrower | businesslike | Exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics / characteristics that would be useful in business |
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cost-efficient, cost-effective | Productive relative to the cost |
economic, economical | Using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness |
expeditious | Marked by speed and efficiency |
high-octane | Used of gasoline |
streamlined | made efficient by stripping off nonessentials |
See also | competent | properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient |
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effective, effectual, efficacious | producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect |
Opposite | inefficient | not producing desired results |
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Spanish | competente, eficaz, eficiente |
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Catalan | eficient |
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Nouns | efficiency | skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort |
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