as in acceptability
the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately
the fire department sent someone to determine the adequacy of the building's evacuation plan
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Recent Examples of adequacy
In Michigan, the public service commission is fighting to restore resource adequacy after partial deregulation resulted in reliability issues and cost shifts to regulated customers when the unregulated energy providers failed to procure regional capacity.
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Ed Hirs, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
The filing also highlights the company's strategic initiatives, including optimizing its portfolio and improving underwriting results through selective underwriting and rate adequacy.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2025
The filing also details various regulatory matters, including capital adequacy requirements.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2025
Once client information has been digitized, there are so many ways to use it across the bank, such as reporting on capital adequacy ratios, tax compliance use cases, ESG and credit underwriting.
—Alex Ford, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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Ed Hirs, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
The filing also highlights the company's strategic initiatives, including optimizing its portfolio and improving underwriting results through selective underwriting and rate adequacy.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2025
The filing also details various regulatory matters, including capital adequacy requirements.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2025
Once client information has been digitized, there are so many ways to use it across the bank, such as reporting on capital adequacy ratios, tax compliance use cases, ESG and credit underwriting.
—Alex Ford, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adequacy
Noun
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Suppose scientific advances in the USSR had not just put a satellite into orbit, but found means of calculating an economy of sufficiency, even mild luxury, priced without profit, and equitably distributed.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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Taurus offers a peace rooted in gratitude, sufficiency, and care.—
Colin Bedell,
Them.,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This alcohol-free, fluoride-free and preservative-free formula is infused with the natural goodness of peppermint, spearmint, cardamom, fennel, clove, oregano and tea tree oils.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
1 May 2025
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Testarossa club manager Tracy Chastain, who grew up in the South, personally vetted the gravy, and everyone universally loved the buttery goodness of the biscuits, of which were left nary a crumb.—
Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Adequacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adequacy. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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