Definitions for efficient

efficient ef·fi·cient

Spelling: [ih-fish-uh nt]
IPA: /ɪˈfɪʃ ənt/

Efficient is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in efficient (ceeffiint).

Definitions for efficient

adjective

  1. performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable:
  2. satisfactory and economical to use:
  3. producing an effect, as a cause; causative.
  4. utilizing a particular commodity or product with the least waste of resources or effort (usually used in combination):

Origin of efficient

1350-1400; Middle English (Middle French) Latin efficient- (stem of efficiēns), equivalent to ef- ef- + fic-, combining form of facere to make, do

Examples for efficient

Some call this HIV anxiety ignorant, and argue that protocols on both sides of the industry are efficient in their own ways.

It was all so efficient, and also much more fun and inventive than an app.

What this efficient cause is, is a question that awakens no responsive inquiry.

Thus we are led forward always from facts to their efficient causes.

Bureaucratic inertia is, by long tradition, the most efficient dispatcher of scandals.

France, and indeed Europe, was on the cusp of a new kind of living where governments needed to be efficient.

Build evidence about the practices, policies, and programs that will achieve the most effective and efficient results.

Certainly, they115 are not so efficient as those of the older country; how could they be?

Why did not your most efficient employers dispatch an ordinary assassin?

And all your Science you have turned to the efficient slaughter of men.

Word Value for efficient
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17

Words with friends

19

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