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efficient   (TTS Sound)

The adj efficient has 2 senses

• efficient -- (being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; "an efficient production manager"; "efficient engines save gas")


• effective, efficient -- (able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution")