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  2. Effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Antonyms for effectiveness include: uselessness, ineffectiveness. [13] Simply stated, effective means achieving an effect, and efficient means getting a task or job done it with little waste. To illustrate: suppose, you build 10 houses, very fast and cheap (efficient), but no one buy them.

  3. Efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task. In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste.

  4. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  5. Endonym and exonym - Wikipedia

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    An endonym / ˈ ɛ n d ə n ɪ m / (also known as autonym / ˈ ɔː t ə n ɪ m /) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their place of origin, or their language.

  6. Human resource management - Wikipedia

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    Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the effective and efficient management of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage. It is designed to maximize employee performance in service of an employer's strategic objectives.

  7. Conscientiousness - Wikipedia

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    People low in conscientiousness have difficulty saving money and their risky borrowing practices make them fall prey to subprime and predatory lending more often than conscientious people. High conscientiousness is associated with more careful planning of shopping trips and less impulse buying of unneeded items. [ 20 ]

  8. Antiphrasis - Wikipedia

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    When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings depending on context. For example, Spanish dichoso [ 4 ] originally meant "fortunate, blissful" as in tierra dichosa , "fortunate land", but it acquired the ironic and colloquial meaning of "infortunate, bothersome" as in ¡Dichosas moscas ...

  9. Efficiency (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Efficiency is the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended task or purpose. Efficiency may also refer to: Efficiency (aerodynamics), the amount of lift divided by the aerodynamic drag; Efficiency (apartment), a one-room apartment; Efficiency (basketball), a statistical benchmark to compare the overall value of players