efficiency expert

noun

1. a person who studies the methods, procedures, and job characteristics of a business or factory with the object of devising ways to increase the efficiency of equipment and personnel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of efficiency expert¹

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

Example Sentences

James Harden, the efficiency expert whose stepback footwork puts Victor Cruz to shame.

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I did not label him efficiency-expert, for printers have always been notoriously allergic to that title.

From Project Gutenberg

Nature IS an efficiency expert and doesn't give you an oversupply of anything without demanding that you use it.

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He is now determined to become an efficiency expert in the matter of the world-wide propagation of Christianity.

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The efficiency expert would ask 132her to account for these two hundred minutes.

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Even Horace Nimms forgot his impending fall as the efficiency expert extraordinary declaimed the gospel of action and boldness.

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