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Plural of inefficiency

regular plural

The plural of inefficiency is inefficiencies.

Forms of inefficiency

Singularinefficiency
Pluralinefficiencies
Countablecountable and uncountable

Inefficiencies in a sentence

  • 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...
  • I will scrub the inefficiencies out of the system.From the entry scrub
  • Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which administers TANF at the federal level, adds to the program’s inefficiencies.2024 September 23, Sam Adolphsen, Paige Terryberry, “WITH REFORM, TANF CAN LIFT AMERICAN FAMILIES OUT OF DEPENDENCY”, in Foundation for…. From the entry TANF
  • Excess capacities for some modes and system inefficiencies, to some extent, for all modes continue to pose major concerns.1978, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Analysis of DOT Near-term Transportation Research…. From the entry transmodal
  • As a result, the fund may realize few if any of diversity’s benefits, while still suffering from the inefficiencies often caused by intrateam strife.2007 October 7, Mark Hulbert, “At Some Funds, a Gender Communication Gap”, in New York Times. From the entry intrateam

Meaning of inefficiency

  1. noun Lack of efficiency or effectiveness.

Full definition of inefficiency

Questions about the plural of inefficiency

What is the plural of inefficiency?
The plural of inefficiency is inefficiencies.
Is inefficiency countable?
Inefficiency is a countable and uncountable noun.

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