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Efficient

adjective

Being effective without wasting time or effort or expense. "Efficient engines save gas"

Able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively. Synonym: effective. "Effective personnel" , "An efficient secretary" , "The efficient cause of the revolution"

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"Efficient" Quotes from Famous Books

... meant to her. Dion did not know this; he suspected it because, since Robin's illness, he had become much more sharply aware of the depth of mother-love in Rosamund, of the hovering wings that guarded the nestling. That efficient guarding implies shutting out was presently to be brought home to him with a definiteness leading ...

— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens

... the mill was stopped and a boy scraped out with a stick or hook the crushed apples. A horse walking in a small circle moved a lever which turned the motor wheel. It was slow work; it took three hours to grind a cart-load of apples; but the machinery was efficient and simple. The pomace fell into a large shallow vat or tank, and if it could lie in the vat overnight it was a benefit. Then the pomace was put in a press. This was simple in construction. At the bottom was ...

— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle

... draft, and all the members were required forthwith to arm themselves with firearms, and Charles W. Patten and Wilkinson both offered to supply all who could not afford to purchase firearms. Wilkinson was a very efficient member of the order, and very zealous. Much of his time he passed in the organization of temples in different sections of country; and it was often stated as encouragement for the members that the temples were rapidly multiplying, and being filled with the "best kind" of men. It was earnestly ...

— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer

... the living room. Before they had him safely on the wide couch where the Indian blankets glowed, Tharon, trembling but efficient, had lighted the hanging lamp ...

— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe

... through all trials. She was too busy to be sad, and leaned too trustingly on her Father's hand to be doubtful of her way. The neighboring Indians soon loved her as a friend, for they found her always truthful, just, and kind. From their teachings she added much to her knowledge of simple medicines. So efficient was her skill, and so prompt her sympathy, that for many miles around, if man, woman, or child were alarmingly ill, they were sure to send for Elizabeth Haddon; and, wherever she went, her observing mind gathered ...

— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

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