acceptability
IPA: ʌksɛptʌbˈɪɫʌti
noun
- The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
- (military) Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)
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Examples of "acceptability" in Sentences
- Since I started in the business, I have seen the "acceptability" bar raised higher and higher.
- We tell stories from our lives about appearance and acceptability, which is what middle school is all about.
- Re don’t we have to alert learners to the fact that their acceptability is still restricted to certain registers?
- That is, don’t we have to alert learners to the fact that their acceptability is still restricted to certain registers?
- We have seen so much death in the news, in movies and in games that it's hard to say where the line of acceptability is and what a director has to do to cross it.
- With the rise of doublespeak, or what is commonly known as "political correctness", we have already begun the journey of reshaping our language along those lines which fit an orthodoxy of "acceptability".
- Such forward-looking investigations are sometimes called acceptability research because their purpose is to identify a basis for positioning an innovation so that it will be more acceptable that is, have a more rapid rate of adoption.
- Neil Abercrombie, who knew Mr. Obama's parents when they were students in Honolulu, says that what the president finds here is not so much privacy but "acceptability" - the protective cocoon that comes with being in the warm embrace of a familiar place, where people regard him as "ohana," Hawaiian for "extended family."
- From describing the Iraqi insurgency as being in its "last throes" (when it was patently just getting revved up for its second throes) to calling the acceptability of waterboarding a "no-brainer" (when even the people who conduct it say that the information it yields cannot be relied upon), he continues to defend the indefensible with the implausible and the discredited.