Meanings (ES + gloss)
eficaz • eficiente
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
An efficient process would automate all the routine work.
Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.
eficaz
Causing effects, producing results; bringing into being; initiating change (rare except in philosophical and legal expression efficient cause = causative factor or agent).
It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
Ownership, maintenance, or use of the automobile need not be the direct and efficient cause of the injury sustained
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