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inefficient

 adjective
     
in‧ef‧fi‧cient
not using time, money, energy etc in the best way [≠ efficient]:
an inefficient use of resources
Local government was inefficient.
—inefficiently adverb
—inefficiency noun [uncountable and countable]
problems due to the inefficiency of management
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