adequacy
noun
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When we question the adequacy of health-care coverage, or parking facilities, or school funding, we're asking if they are equal to our need. The adjective adequate means "enough" or "acceptable"—though in sentences like "His performance was adequate", it really means "no better than acceptable".
Examples of adequacy in a Sentence
Andrea Ippolito, STAT, 1 Sep. 2023
Copy editors fall into two camps: prescriptivists, who want to enforce The Rules, and descriptivists, who challenge the adequacy of those rules.
—John McIntyre, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2023
This would include requirements for capital adequacy, liquidity management, and conduct of business rules.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
Consequences for Financial Institutions - Banks are also affected by this volatility, with potential implications on their capital adequacy ratios and ability to lend money.
—Chris Muller, Forbes, 5 May 2023
School funding adequacy refers to the funding necessary to provide students with reasonable opportunities to achieve state standards.
—Scott McClallen | The Center Square, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2023
The other allegation involves the adequacy of notice Toyota gave debtors about the status of their loans after repossession.
—Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
All this comes after many small Chinese lenders have seen their capital adequacy levels plummet over the past half-decade.
—Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 25 July 2022
The complaint also said Binance had misled investors about the adequacy of its systems to detect and control manipulative trading and about its efforts to restrict U.S. users from trading on its international platform.
—David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 5 June 2023
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Word History
1701, in the meaning defined above
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“Adequacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adequacy. Accessed 2 Oct. 2023.
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