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: a reliable, efficient assistant.
satisfactory and economical to use: Our new air conditioner is more efficient than our old one.
producing an effect, as a cause; causative.
utilizing a particular commodity or product with the least waste of resources or effort (usually used in combination): a fuel-efficient engine.
Origin of efficient
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin efficient- (stem of efficiēns ), equivalent to ef- ef- + fic-, combining form of facere “to make, do1 ” + -ent- -ent
Integrates into tools like HubSpot and Salesforce to make post-event followups more efficient.
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Despite our reliance on electronic storage, we still need efficient and secure cabinets to store our important personal papers.
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Not because it competes with Snowflake, but because it's utilizing a new online bidding process that's designed to find the most efficient IPO price.
Breaking down why Snowflake's massive IPO stood out from the stock market froth|Dan Primack|September 17, 2020|Axios
Under the most efficient GOP gerrymander, there are likely 13 safe Republican seats, with the Democrats packed into one Pittsburgh seat and four in and around Philadelphia.
America needs a democratic revolution|Matthew Yglesias|September 17, 2020|Vox
This will likely take some work and is certainly not the most efficient way to do business for Google, but it is arguably the best way to do business.
This decade’s most important marketing question: What data rights do advertisers possess?|Kirk Williams|September 17, 2020|Search Engine Land
Build evidence about the practices, policies, and programs that will achieve the most effective and efficient results.
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball?|Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bureaucratic inertia is, by long tradition, the most efficient dispatcher of scandals.
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It was all so efficient, and also much more fun and inventive than an app.
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France, and indeed Europe, was on the cusp of a new kind of living where governments needed to be efficient.
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Some call this HIV anxiety ignorant, and argue that protocols on both sides of the industry are efficient in their own ways.
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Perhaps the most efficient flat-flame burners available prior to 1867 were those made by Mr. S. Leoni, of London.
Gas Burners|Owen Merriman
There are several types of these machines, all of which are efficient.
The Preparation of Plantation Rubber|Sidney Morgan
You acquiesced in the treating of the Sproxton men, as necessary to the efficient working of the reformed constituency?
Felix Holt, The Radical|George Eliot
She was bright, efficient, well liked by her employers (in one position five years).
Benign Stupors|August Hoch
They are well drilled in this, and many of their operations are systematic and efficient.
Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866|Henry Howland Crapo
British Dictionary definitions for efficient
efficient
/ (ɪˈfɪʃənt) /
adjective
functioning or producing effectively and with the least waste of effort; competent