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inefficiencies

inefficiencies is the plural of inefficiency.

Meaning of inefficiency

Noun

inefficiency (countable and uncountable, plural inefficiencies)

  1. Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.
    • Yet only 21 percent of adult TANF recipients are working today, largely because of these inefficiencies and loopholes.2024 September 23, Sam Adolphsen, Paige Terryberry, “WITH REFORM, TANF CAN LIFT AMERICAN FAMILIES OUT OF DEPENDENCY”, in Foundation for Government Accountability, page 5

Questions about inefficiencies

What is inefficiencies the plural of?
Inefficiencies is the plural of inefficiency.

Words near inefficiencies in the dictionary

  1. inefficaciousness
  2. inefficacity
  3. inefficacy
  4. inefficience
  5. inefficiences
  6. inefficiencies
  7. inefficiency
  8. inefficient
  9. inefficiently
  10. inefficients
  11. inegalitarian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inefficiencies (page history and authors); inefficiency (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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