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| al·lo·cat·ive in·ef·fi·cien·cy |
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inefficient allocation of production resources: a situation in which production resources are inefficiently allocated, and, if they were reorganized, it would be possible to make some consumers better off without making others worse off. When there is allocative inefficiency, one person's satisfaction can be increased without lowering someone else's.
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