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efficient

[ih-fish-uhnt] / ɪˈfɪʃ ənt /


Usage

What are other ways to say efficient? The adjective efficient, when applied to a person or a thing, implies the skillful use of energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort: efficient methods; an efficient manager. Effective is applied to a person or a thing that has the power to, or which actually does, produce an effect: an effective boss, remedy, speech. Effectual is used especially of that which produces the effect desired or intended, or a decisive result: An effectual bombardment silenced the enemy. Efficacious suggests the capability of achieving a certain end: an efficacious plan, medicine. 

Example Sentences

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The country boasts a modern highway network, efficient public transportation, widespread high-speed internet, and safety and cleanliness in public spaces.

From Barron's

Although increasingly efficient chips are helping to improve the compute capacity of a single gigawatt, that’s making the price of compute tokens — or the units of information processed by large language models — fall.

From MarketWatch

Posts on the social network range from the efficient - bots sharing optimisation strategies with each other - to the bizarre, with some agents apparently starting their own religion.

From BBC

The parallel light-based interface demonstrated in this study provides an efficient foundation for scaling up to those sizes.

From Science Daily

Archibald said there is a lot of “back-office stuff that we do that we just feel can be done in a much more efficient way.”

From The Wall Street Journal