Efficient vs Serviceable - What's the difference?
efficient | serviceable | Related terms |
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
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Using a particular proportion of available energy.
Causing effects; producing results.
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Easy to service.
Repairable instead of disposable.
In condition for use.
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*:I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose...
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Efficient is a related term of serviceable.
As adjectives the difference between efficient and serviceable
is that efficient is efficient while serviceable is easy to service.efficient
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Adjective
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- The efficient cause is the working cause.