adequacy
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- n the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"
- n the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
- We should review the adequacy of the resources of the IMF, the World Bank Group and other multilateral development banks and stand ready to increase them where necessary.
- After a few minutes, Justice Byron White interrupted Cox to inquire about the adequacy of the trial record in lower courts.
- Since that time the British have brought their home strength somewhere near to the point of adequacy, but the sacrifice of major quantities of materiel from Britain and Egypt .