See inefficient on Wiktionary
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"plural"
]
}
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"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1889, New York (State). Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics, Annual Report (part 2, page 127)",
"text": "Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]"
},
{
"ref": "1903, Jack London, The People of the Abyss, Chapter 17:",
"text": "A general shaking up of the workers from top to bottom would result; and when equilibrium had been restored, the number of the inefficients at the bottom of the Abyss would have been increased by hundreds of thousands.",
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}
],
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"A person who cannot or does not work efficiently."
],
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"work",
"work"
]
]
}
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],
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