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inefficient englanniksi
Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious
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Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing
{{quote-journal|en|date=January 17 1987|author=Ronald Reagan|journal=Presidential Radio Address
A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.
1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, ''Annual Report'' (part 2, page 127)
- Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck (..)
{{quote-text|en|year=1903|author=Jack London|title=s:The People of the Abyss|section=People of the Abyss/Chapter 17|Chapter 17