inefficiency

  • 21x-inefficiency — ˌx inefˈficiency noun [uncountable] when a business does not achieve the best results in the most economic way in relation to the number of employees, machines etc it has: • A firm’s X inefficiency is measured by how much it differs from the… …

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  • 22X-inefficiency — is the difference between efficient behavior of firms assumed or implied by economic theory and their observed behavior in practice.Economic theory assumes that the management of firms act to maximize owners wealth by minimizing risk and… …

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  • 23technical inefficiency — UK US noun [U] PRODUCTION ► a situation in which a company or a particular machine fails to produce the largest possible number of goods with the time, materials, labour, etc. that are available: »This article examines the technical inefficiency… …

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  • 24The Inefficiency of Humans — Infobox Album Name = The Inefficiency of Humans Type = EP Artist = Servotron Released = 1998 Recorded = Genre = indie rock Length = Label = Thick Records Producer = Reviews = Last album = Entertainment Program for Humans (Second Variety) (1998)… …

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  • 25Coefficient of Inefficiency — is a semi humorous attempt of C. Northcote Parkinson to define the size of a committee or other decision making body at which it becomes completely inefficient.In the book Parkinson s Law: The Pursuit of Progress , (London, John Murray, 1958) one …

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  • 26market inefficiency — UK US noun [U] STOCK MARKET, FINANCE ► a situation in which a financial market does not operate as well as it should, for example where customers do not have enough information about products, prices are not related to supply and demand, etc.:… …

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  • 27breed inefficiency — cause inefficiency …

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  • 28coronary inefficiency —    a weak heart    Medical jargon which verges on circumlocution or pomposity:     A coronary inefficiency had made it necessary for Robert Winthrop to use a wheelchair. (Ludlum, 1979)    If someone is said to have suffered a coronary, it means… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 29X-inefficiency — Неспособность произвести данный объем продукции при самых низких общих издержках производства …

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  • 30incompetency — Inefficiency; a lack of some requisite ability. Anno: 4 ALR3d 1095. Inadequacy or insufficiency, either physical or mental, as the incompetency of a child for hard labor or of an idiot for intellectual labor. Brandt v Godwin, 24 NYSE 305, 3 NYS… …

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