日本語WordNet
a disposition to remain inactive or inert; "he had to overcome his inertia and get back to work"
(physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
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Inertia is a tendency to do nothing or remain unchanged.
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Such was the bureaucratic inertia that reformers abandoned efforts to modernize antiquated procedures stifling efficiency.
官僚的惰性は非常に大きかったため、改革者は効率を妨げる古風な手続きを近代化する努力を放棄しました。
Nevertheless, despite overwhelming evidence supporting intervention, policymakers hesitated implementing necessary reforms, demonstrating institutional inertia paradoxically.
それにもかかわらず、介入を支持する圧倒的な証拠にもかかわらず、政策立案者は必要な改革の実施をためらい、逆説的に制度的惰性を示した。
Organizational inertia slows progress.
組織の惰性が進歩を遅らせる。
Pronunciation data from ipa-dict (MIT License) based on cmudict-ipa by @lingz