adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an effective/efficient means
▪ Speed bumps are an effective means of stopping cars from going too fast.
effective/efficient
▪ It was a highly effective system of communication.
effective/efficient (=giving the result you want)
▪ Some methods are more effective than others.
efficient use
▪ Doing the work in stages makes the most efficient use of resources.
highly successful/effective/efficient
▪ a highly successful politician
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Also, often as not and depending on the turnover rate, air operated filters are just as efficient.
▪ The arrangement of the room should be as efficient and convenient for several people moving about as for one person sitting reading.
▪ Modern heating appliances of all types are generally well-designed, unobtrusive, and as efficient as current technology allows.
▪ Greengate proved to be almost four times as efficient as any other Pilkingtons glass plant.
▪ She never did, being as efficient as she was creative in the kitchen that she loved so much.
▪ The only question for me was if Neil's sources in the financial sector were as efficient as mine.
▪ But the whole process is still not as efficient.
▪ If heavy bushes are out of place, graceful grasses can be just as efficient.
extremely
▪ As very few records will not be on their home tracks, this procedure is extremely efficient.
▪ Furthermore, they are extremely efficient.
▪ It would also make extremely efficient use of potentially dwindling uranium supplies.
▪ Amphoterics are high foaming and extremely efficient detergents but their expense tends to rule them out for all but specialist applications.
▪ Jim McWhir, working with Ray Ansell, devised an extremely efficient method for doing this.
▪ Indeed, the network of Essene houses seems to have been both widespread and extremely efficient.
▪ Cats are normally extremely efficient at regulating the amount of food they take in.
highly
▪ Culturing microorganisms offers a highly efficient means of producing high-protein food supplements for a hungry world of the future.
▪ They are highly efficient and especially adroit at cutting out excessive steps and cumbersome procedures.
▪ Though this makes many passengers change aeroplanes, it is highly efficient for the airlines themselves.
▪ It was unlikely that this highly efficient virus would carry any superfluous baggage.
▪ Law was a highly efficient, rather unimaginative, detailed administrator, given political force by a strong sense of partisan combativeness.
▪ They know him only as a highly efficient and exacting captain.
▪ These national breeding programmes are highly efficient and successful but the diversity has been lost.
▪ The edge and beyond. Highly efficient and visually satisfying.
less
▪ To protect Britain's biggest manufacturer by making it less efficient: now that should really worry the public.
▪ It was less efficient in practice.
▪ Use of n-grams requires little storage or processing but is less efficient at discriminating between acceptable and unacceptable letter strings.
▪ Or the child may at first become even less efficient and then show some improvement.
▪ Such anaerobic respiration is much quicker than aerobic respiration, but also much less efficient in terms of energy produced per unit of fuel.
▪ This anaerobic system is much less efficient than the primary, oxygen-using system.
▪ The escaping water would quickly turn to steam, it was feared, which would be much less efficient at removing heat.
▪ The feeding of insect-eaters is less efficient.
more
▪ This makes sense if and only if these committees and interfaces produce more innovation and more efficient innovation than the alternatives.
▪ This can make markets more efficient, and lets investors spend less time and money searching for information.
▪ The system functions as a turnkey management solution to service providers, making their operation more efficient and profitable.
▪ One person leading into another can make for a smoother flow and a more efficient use of time.
▪ A far more efficient option is a fire which has a convector firebox to boost output.
▪ In the winter, reversible ceiling fans can help circulate warm air and make furnace use more efficient.
most
▪ The skilled reader does not guess so much as eliminate alternatives by the most efficient route.
▪ The answer is that firms will want to use the most efficient technique because it yields the greatest profit.
▪ But I am not the most efficient of fell walkers; others may go up top to conquer the summits.
▪ It is competition which forces firms to adopt the most efficient productive techniques.
▪ Instead of allocating resources in the most efficient way there is a list of priorities.
▪ Patents and other proprietary mechanisms may prevent the use of the most efficient processes turning out the best quality products.
▪ In sum, it enables the body to be most able to deal with danger and to be most efficient physically.
▪ Buffalo is one of the most efficient grass-eating animals in the world, thus it is more economical to raise than cattle.
so
▪ It is so efficient and saves vast amounts of time and money.
▪ Text is so efficient over the Internet that it is feasible to give away this kind of service.
▪ These days you are so efficient that the magazine even arrives on time!
▪ It was all so easy in those early weeks. So efficient.
▪ Not so efficient at collecting clippings.
▪ You're so efficient it seems strange you haven't mastered the art of the dumpling.
▪ Cagoules and other modern waterproofs, so efficient today, had not then been invented.
▪ Enjoy organization that's so efficient you hardly notice it.
socially
▪ Since marginal private and social benefits diverge, private markets will not produce the socially efficient quantity.
▪ Hence a competitive market will produce a socially efficient quantity of private goods.
▪ Property rights thus have a distributional implication - who compensates whom - but also act to achieve the socially efficient allocation.
▪ Although this is the socially efficient output in the short run it is not efficient in the long run.
▪ The equilibrium quantity remains the socially efficient quantity.
▪ The market therefore does not produce a socially efficient allocation of resources.
▪ First, the industry survives with two firms for much longer than is socially efficient.
▪ E *; is the socially efficient point at which output is Q *;.
very
▪ She liked to think that she was very efficient in all she did.
▪ They are not very efficient in the way they do their business.
▪ Print is very efficient for the communication and imbibing of information.
▪ The chance of reproducing is high even if the organism is not very efficient.
▪ The bureaucratic style can be very efficient in a stable environment and when the organisation is of a large size.
▪ They therefore are also very efficient at releasing all the trapped solar-wind gases in the lunar material.
▪ Both types are called close packing since they are very efficient in the use of space.
▪ By the theory of centralization, it would be very efficient.
■ NOUN
allocation
▪ For the international economy it hopefully brings about a more efficient allocation of investment or financial resources.
▪ Property rights thus have a distributional implication - who compensates whom - but also act to achieve the socially efficient allocation.
▪ The basic economic argument for the market system-that it tends to provide an efficient allocation of resources-Is not easily undermined.
▪ I believe this to be most important if we are to have rational investment decisions and efficient allocations of resources.
▪ Such specialization, we saw in Chapter 3, means a more efficient allocation of resources.
▪ The market therefore does not produce a socially efficient allocation of resources.
▪ If the market does not achieve an efficient allocation of resources there is said to be market failure.
management
▪ Data Communications: Collection and manipulation of data on the shop floor with a view to allowing more efficient management of the industry's resources.
▪ The complete dominance of the control function over the planning function in the 1980s made service planning and efficient management extremely difficult.
▪ With efficient management, you can be one of two teams promoted at the end of the 14-game season.
▪ The policy confusion at the top did not preclude efficient management lower down.
manner
▪ In a responsive and efficient manner, they have demonstrated how to deliver good services at an affordable price.
▪ Once she came second among 60 contestants in a competition to find the telephone operator with the most pleasant and efficient manner.
▪ If you follow the guidelines below your complaint will be dealt with in the most efficient manner possible.
market
▪ The first is referred to as the efficient markets hypothesis.
▪ Yet the path to stable democracy, efficient market economy and social justice is a hard one. 5.
▪ This may represent an anomaly in what is otherwise an efficient market.
means
▪ For their sakes, and the sakes of others who follow, more efficient means of apprehending offending corporations are desirable.
▪ Writing is downgraded as if it is a clumsy substitute for more efficient means of preserving data and the findings or conclusions.
▪ Culturing microorganisms offers a highly efficient means of producing high-protein food supplements for a hungry world of the future.
▪ In this way society benefits from the most efficient means of producing wealth, consistent with the protection of non-aggregative social values.
▪ For the expert in the field, trivial names are short, convenient and an efficient means of communication.
▪ Fax machines have now been installed in the specialist gardens, as they represent a very cost-effective and efficient means of communicating.
▪ It is immediately apparent from this matrix that most of our information resources lack efficient means for exploiting those resources.
▪ Views differed as to whether the review procedure was also an efficient means of arriving at prescriptions for changes and motivating their implementation.
method
▪ Further Work Statistical processing provides a simple, efficient method for picking the correct words based on local neighbourhood.
▪ The public will applaud the seeming gains in excellence achieved by more efficient methods of exclusion.
▪ One efficient method of covering the roof is to combine twin wall Lexon Thermoclear sheeting with Twinfix aluminium structural glazing bar.
▪ It connoted a rational, efficient method of organization-something to take the place of the arbitrary exercise of power by authoritarian regimes.
▪ We would also like to establish a functional and efficient method for connecting our systems to the specialist gardens.
▪ Emulation within Parallel Architecture A more efficient method than computer simulations for implementing neural networks is to emulate within parallel architecture.
▪ Easy Project is an efficient method of planning, tracking and controlling all types of projects.
▪ The number of compounds is large and an efficient method must be used to store such information.
operation
▪ Such procedures should aim to ensure efficient operation and the provision of fresh, clean air.
▪ The reduction in train lengths also impedes efficient operation.
▪ Ffos Las continues as a well run and efficient operation, and coal input is set to climb.
▪ The organization is the framework on which the entire management system depends for efficient operation.
▪ A second has been the creation of new technologies that have altered the scale needed for efficient operation.
▪ Economic development programs, it was alleged, undermine the efficient operation of the market.
▪ First, state planning and regulation of the economy inhibit its efficient operation by distorting market forces.
▪ Such huge concentrations of animals offer the potential for significant cost savings through more efficient operations than are possible on smaller farms.
production
▪ On the other hand, more efficient production was a significant benefit to those who had been on courses.
▪ But, second, in the vast majority of markets, efficient production can be attained with a high degree of competition.
▪ The company has appointed Bob Dover as the project chief charged with bringing the car to efficient production.
▪ Perhaps the time had now come to change the emphasis to more efficient production.
▪ They felt the courses led to increased income, a reduction in stock losses, and more efficient production.
▪ There was a general acceptance of the need for further and continuing training with greater emphasis on efficient production as opposed to increased production.
▪ Intended to develop recognition and efficient production of key functional phrases, improve listening ability, and expand basic business vocabulary.
service
▪ All bedrooms are spacious and impeccably decorated, and the hotel's swift and efficient service is renowned.
▪ A friendly, efficient service aimed at getting it right first time.
▪ Payroll Staff have always tried to provide a friendly and efficient service.
▪ It is an efficient service and it causes the customer much less trouble.
▪ The tour will provide an insight into the modern technology used to co-ordinate an efficient service to over 200,000 customers.
▪ Now they are urging people to register lost and found pets to ensure an efficient service.
▪ They are confined to discussions of a very general nature and to providing the resources necessary for an efficient service.
▪ The retailer has acquired a reputation for low prices and efficient service.
solution
▪ Since individuals have different tastes, it may be that the efficient solution is for individuals of similar taste to group together.
▪ In this way we get closer to the efficient solution in which the marginal cost of pollution reduction is equalized across firms.
▪ The efficient solution is rarely to have a zero quantity of the externality.
▪ Whatever happens, either we obtain an efficient solution or we can deduce that there are no efficient solutions.
▪ Thus the efficient solutions of P2 can be expressed as and.
▪ However, this does not mean that P3 has no efficient solutions, as we shall see below.
system
▪ The clearing system, being nationwide and increasingly computerized, makes for a very efficient system of transmitting payments.
▪ Inventing an economically efficient system for counting and cutting emissions that encompasses the public and private sectors, is the biggest challenge.
▪ Without an efficient system and good professional advice, unforeseen problems can develop into major setbacks.
▪ A triangle is an efficient system of emotional checks and balances, allowing chil-dren to work out complicated feelings without volatile outbursts.
▪ Thieves could evade an efficient system by taking stolen cattle to another district for sale.
use
▪ It is obvious that the relatively low price of high grade primary aggregates discourages efficient use of available resources and increases wastage.
▪ Such rigidity and unresponsiveness make the efficient use of productive resources unlikely.
▪ The extent to which the momentum towards more efficient use of energy for heat had slackened since 1985 had surprised them.
▪ An equally efficient use of resource.
▪ Does the library education programme result in an increase in, or more efficient use of, the library?
▪ This makes efficient use of electricity and provides more light.
▪ The alternative of using a fully trained adviser as receptionist would probably not be considered an efficient use of staff.
▪ An efficient stock market is therefore necessary to ensure an efficient use of capital.
way
▪ What is the most cost-effective and efficient way of achieving those ends remains to be decided after proper examination.
▪ But, given that we already have the separated material, civilian reactors provide an efficient way of permanent disposal.
▪ This is quite enough to lose, and it is the most efficient way to control weight loss.
▪ This obviously is not an especially efficient way to promote capital formation.
▪ There must be a clean and efficient way of disposing of the ash.
▪ The most efficient way to heat a house is to give each register its own supply duct directly off the trunk lines.
▪ Along the link there also flows a realisation that there are more efficient ways to run a country.
▪ Screening by income criteria alone is not an efficient way of discovering nutritional risk.
ways
▪ Along the link there also flows a realisation that there are more efficient ways to run a country.
▪ Both are more efficient ways for subscribers to download and upload more and larger files, thus increasing network usage.
▪ Economy in bits can be achieved by using more efficient ways to represent data.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Mrs Tidy/Mrs Efficient/Mrs Nosy etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an energy efficient heating system
▪ For a successful business, friendly and efficient staff are essential.
▪ Modern houses are much more energy efficient
▪ My new computer's much faster and more efficient than the old one was.
▪ Service at the restaurant is efficient and friendly.
▪ The doctor was cheerful and efficient, which immediately made me feel more relaxed.
▪ The passport office seems very efficient - I got a new passport in just 48 hours.
▪ This is the most efficient and economical washing machine on the market.
▪ We need more efficient methods of transporting goods.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Government rules now require car companies to design and produce cars with increasingly efficient engines.
▪ If you are already using Ventura then these changes will all make your work more efficient and easy.
▪ In its draft version the report declares that market forces alone will not ensure more efficient use of energy.
▪ It is so efficient and saves vast amounts of time and money.
▪ Or the child may at first become even less efficient and then show some improvement.
▪ Organisationally, the working of both payroll and personnel records has been very useful in providing an efficient administrative service.
▪ They point out that bottom-up statistical methods are efficient from a computational point of view, but exhibit poor error correcting capabilities.
▪ Thus, an efficient managerial labour market would be enough.