meaning of efficient
1. Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.
2. An efficient cause; a prime mover.
3. 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
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