source of inefficiency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsourceandinefficiency
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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inefficiency
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/us/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/
a lack of organization or skill that wastes time, energy, money, etc., or methods or actions that waste time, etc. in ...
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(Definition ofsourceandinefficiencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The already seriously indebted co-operatives were perceived as onesourceofinefficiency.
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Its treatment of record types was the mainsourceofinefficiency.
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This is very high and it is the mainsourceofinefficiencyof our current implementation.
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This is asourceofinefficiency.
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But the system is a hindrance or asourceofinefficiency.
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Those problems are asourceofinefficiencyin industry and social disharmony.
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There are those in the services who consider that to be asourceofinefficiencyand misuse of manpower.
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This causes a cycle of heating and cooling of the cylinder with every stroke which is asourceofinefficiency.
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This becomes asourceofinefficiencyin the network.
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This is asourceofinefficiency, and is particularly bad when the propagation delay is much longer than the transmission delay.
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We abstract from lending relationhips and other specific sources of inefficiency that competition might induce in the presence of asymmetric information.
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In his analysis, national economies are simply sources of inefficiency in resource allocations.
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A major difficulty is that many particular sources of inefficiency are not susceptible to enforcement by general regulation.
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However, there are sources of inefficiency in the system that could be tackled.
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At the moment there are anomalies and sources of inefficiency which the whole of the new scheme is designed to prevent.
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These reforms target the country's major sources of inefficiency and price distortion and are likely to lead to major restructuring of almost all economic sectors.
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Spontaneous emission is necessary to initiate laser oscillation, but it is one among several sources of inefficiency once the laser is oscillating.
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