<adj.all> an inefficient campaign against drugs outdated and inefficient design and methods
lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate
<adj.all> an ineffective administration inefficient workers
Inefficient \In`ef*fi"cient\, a. 1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired, or achieiving the effect by unnnecessary and excessive expenditure of resources; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures; inefficient methods are too expensive. [1913 Webster +PJC]
2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
'So far the government's policy is essentially to pour money into inefficient public sector enterprises,' says a western economist.
U.S. officials say Japan's high savings and investment rates, its land policies, exclusionary business practices, inefficient retail distribution networks and pricing mechanisms all indirectly restrain trade.
An investor's only other option is to turn to a handful of small investment firms that make a fragmented and highly inefficient secondary market in partnership interests.
Privatization is a fundamental part of UNO's economic program. The opposition hopes to reduce the public sector and return inefficient state-owned industries to the private sector.
It is inefficient and at odds with Mr. Ozal's free-market ideology.
But Enimont also has some problems: It is overstaffed and has inefficient internal distribution, and the two groups that formed it often duplicate efforts.
Because the farm is small, his operation is inefficient by U.S. standards, and Mr. Kato is trying to put together land from smaller farms to create some economy of scale.
The electricity industry is struggling with expensive and inefficient nuclear-power plants.
The Japanese are well aware that their agriculture is highly inefficient.
Mr. Beebower agrees that a tax would reduce short-term trading, but he says he doesn't believe it would lead to an inefficient market.
Inner-city schools are America's collective farms-backward, stagnant, inefficient and unresponsive to market demand.
Granted, very few true democracies _ in which everyone votes on everything _ exist in the world, simply because it is too cumbersome and inefficient.
Also, Polish officials are beginning what at least initially will be a jarring reform program causing widespread unemployment and other disruptions as inefficient state-run enterprises are forced to operate in a competitive system for the first time.
After all, the European steel industry is now convulsed by a row over the Commission's decision to sanction Ecu7bn in aid to several inefficient state-owned groups.
For most company executives it is simply a perk and an economically inefficient perk at that, in that it distorts and diminishes choice.
In doing so, it is probably overpaying. It is also bizarre that a relatively inefficient bank such as Credit should be buying a relatively efficient one such as Rolo.
The Mexican government unveiled a plan to cede control of its notoriously inefficient 56%-owned telephone monopoly to private investors, who would carry out an ambitious expansion to double Mexico's telephone lines within four years.
The proposed dividend cut, to be presented to Citicorp's directors next month, surprised some in the banking community. Chairman John Reed stated recently a cut in dividends is an inefficient way to raise capital.
We cannot afford to support enterprises that are inefficient.
The agency is working on a package of voluntary energy conservation programs modeled after the Green Lights program, under which the EPA urges companies to replace inefficient lighting.
Your source is trying to sell the idea of an incompetent, inefficient and non-competitive American economy for the benefit of its members.
"The new company will have exactly the same assets, and the price has fallen to 13 from 18. Can capital markets be that inefficient?," wonders PaineWebber analyst Bryan Jacoboski.
"The country cannot give itself the luxury of having inefficient enterprises, which constitute a burden to the entire society," de la Madrid said at an appearance Monday in the northern industrial city of Monterrey.
Officials in both German states say the inefficient, overstaffed farms must change to model the leaner, privately run operations in the West.
Colleges and universities are relatively inefficient institutions that seem virtually immune to productivity gains.
Too often the antitrust suits in the period I am describing were brought by or on behalf of inefficient competitors against their deservedly more successful rivals.
The government wants to reduce or do away with inefficient subsidies on consumer and wholesale goods, making prices and incomes more subject to the laws of supply and demand.
China's economy is likely to be mired in its inefficient, half-reformed state for years to come.
If it's government monopoly the consumerists want, they need only be reminded that other governments around the world are happily going the opposite way, shedding big, inefficient telecommunications bureaucracies by privatizing them.
In addition, they argue that the Federal Aviation Administration's equipment is outmoded and its management of the airways inefficient.